Sentences with phrase «give blacks the vote»

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The MP for Richmond Park hasn't been able to win over the black, Asian, and minority ethnic (BAME) vote either, and this is a problem given that this social group is on the rise in the capital.

And lets not forget, even the very right to vote was given to blacks by WHITES.

Liberal Democrats not only take the black vote for granted, they apparently believe we can't exist or think for ourselves without the «Government Massa» telling us what to do and giving us a hand out.

So given the 6 point win for Obama in 2012, it seems that the votes that «put him over the top» as @Affable Geek rightly calls it were the groups he won by decidedly larger chunks (i.e. blacks, Hispanics, Asians, younger voters and women), rather than a specific economic group:

Traditionally, the kind of progressive movement that's lining up behind Nixon has been critiqued for not giving black voters — a voting bloc vital to winning elections — a seat at the table, and for putting racial justice issues second to those of economic justice.

Elinor Tatum, publisher and editor - in - chief of The Amsterdam News, (the nation's oldest continuously published black newspaper), has given voice to a concern I've heard a lot of worried murmurs about in Democratic circles: That black voters won't come out to vote for Andrew Cuomo.

The City Council is considering a vote on whether to adopt a measure which would give them the legal means to override the state property tax cap, It's a plan to raise enough money to keep the city in the black for another year.

My response from that is that Diane Abbott is probably the most typical Labourite out of the five, in terms of policy and rhetoric at least, and to suggest that she'd gain votes solely for being a black woman is to give no credit to her or the Labour membership.

A recent Quinnipiac University poll gave de Blasio 16 percent of the black vote.

The board's vote followed months of intense pressure to reject the proposal from other black education advocates, who argued that charter schools give children in poor neighborhoods better school options.

Now, after 6 terrifying and exciting weeks, it's official: Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams has officially been given the Steam Greenlight, and we, the Team of Black Forest Games, would like to thank all you amazing people who supported and voted for us, we couldn't be happier!

You can vote on your favourites here, though how much this will be paid attention to by Microsoft is anyone's guess, given the most popular titles - Red Dead Redemption, Skyrim and Call of Duty: Black Ops II - remain incompatible for now.

As of now the community has voted over three million times for games to be given the backwards compatibility treatment - with Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 still sitting at the top of the voting, just ahead of Red Dead Redemption.