Discussion for article #242538
Wrong beat for this decade, should have used Zeytoven with Migos on the track, and a random shout out from GUCCIIIIIII.
But, he couldn’t afford that.
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Maybe actually caring about Black issues would work better than treating them like rap-addled idiots…
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Whose f***king money is he wasting now?
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Why is he doing this? Republicans have told us for years that black folk vote for the black candidate because black. So he should have that “group” in the bag right?
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I’ll be perfectly honest: I find the whole GOP/Teatrolls theory that black people vote based entirely on race and not policy abhorrent, BUT I do wonder whether a study would show that minorities are measurably more receptive to policies and ideology when presented by someone of their own race who is running against a white opponent. It seems likely true for people in general, irrespective of minority status, but for obvious reasons I’d be curious whether and how the effect manifests in minority populations. Any know of any studies?
Ben Carson…
…trying to be hip.
“Vote and support Ben Carson for our next president and be awesome,”
over clips of Carson remarks about freedom and personal responsibility.
I’m gobsmacked. Really. Truly.
It sounds just like something from one of the lesser SNL or MadTV skits. And it’s got Carson’s pawprints all over it. Because he is sure as the sun rises that now that Black people have heard his wisdom, there’s no way they won’t follow. (A sort of Pied Piper of insanity???) He is completely oblivious to the fact that he’s now parodying himself.
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Ben, Ben, Ben… You should have mentioned the pyramids!
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TruE Enough. Eminem WON the Free-sTYLE raP BATTle in 8 MILe and IT wAS MOStlY BLACK People Voting for HIM!1!!11!1!!!one!1!!1!11!!!
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“…people who understood the value of personal responsibility and hard work…”
Apparently, the value of hard work is $7.25 an hour. Less, if we could get rid of that pesky minimum wage.
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There isn’t a study, per se, but anecdotally, the only groups of people who by and large vote for candidates based upon Party identification and racial characteristics are older white women and white men. The majority of minorities and individuals within minorities vote based upon policy and support for the minorities’ issues than vote for a particular characteristic. That is, Blacks are more apt to vote for a non-Black candidate so long as they support issues Blacks are, as a whole, interested in. Younger women are more apt to vote for issues central to their lives. The only place this becomes more complicated is the LGBT Community. Most of the people who will support the Republican Party against their own interests are rich white gay men with some rich white lesbians and trans people. However, most of the people who support the Democratic Party in the LGBT Community are non-white.
Not sure if this helps you at all…it’s mostly my observations from living in the South and doing a lot of research.
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This one’s way better:
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Thanks for perpetuating the stereotypes, Ben.
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Ben Carson Ben Carson
Pious like a parson
He ain’t know no thugs
He didn’t shill no drugs
No he’s not insane
The pyramids were really built
To contain grain
Made by dinosaurs
Who were made by Jesus
He did it to please us yo
Don’t you know
Vote for our #1 bro
Ben Carson. Word.
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Not off the top of my head. You theory makes some sense on the surface, however, black republican’s with extreme right wing ideologies haven’t fared well historically with minorities. And when they do do well, its usually with white voters, not minorities. I mean, you have to remember that GOP is only taking in 10%…at best…of the black vote in any given election. Alan Keyes, Herman Cain, Allen West…none of these guys ever breaks that trend. Nor will Carson.
This is actually a pretty bad ploy. Carson knows he is very exposed in the South to Trump and others. So in one of the worst cases of pandering and horrible perception, he is running an ad with a “rapper” in southern cities…because blacks live there and they all love rap. Oh, and while we are at it, go ahead and run it in Detroit too…because that is all back up there and we don’t want this to be TOO obvious as a southern ploy. And doing it on the cheap (radio only), which also keeps it low on the radar. Don’t want to scare those white folks off by hearing rap music playing in the background…they may notice that he IS actually black skinned, after all.
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OK, I’m saying it: he’s a fracking Oreo.
Aspiring Mogul?? He could have at least gotten Future!
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a) the 60-second radio spot, which will play for two weeks in Miami, Atlanta, Houston, Detroit, Birmingham, Alabama, Jackson, Mississippi, Memphis, Tennessee, and Little Rock, Arkansas.
So FML I will have to hear this ad. I reside in one of the aforementioned cities.
b) who keeps telling conservatives that the best way to reach Black people is to rap to them? (remember Mitt Romney telling a group of Black kids “who let the dogs out” (worst rap song ever btw). A normal conversation wouldn’t suffice? what do they think Black people get hypnotized by rap music and do whatever the song suggest?
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Naw, say it isn’t so.