Showing posts with label African Americans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label African Americans. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 17, 2016

Trump tried to appeal to the Black voter

Last night, Trump went to the whitest town in WI, West Bend. There, he spoke about how African Americans were getting shafted by Hillary.

However this is crowd he was speaking to



Plus, his message falls on deaf ears. He only has 1% of the Black vote, so what was he thinking? We ain't here for him, in fact, we haven't forgot about his hatred of President Obama. I mean, he is the king of the birthers.

So Trump, save it because we don't want it.

Thursday, April 2, 2015

New Poll: African-Americans are Not Fans of RFRA



When it comes to the Indiana RFRA, the younger crowd are not trying to hear that noise. But another group is also causing a stir.

Apparently, African-Americans are the outliers when it comes to LGBT rights being taken away. Why are they/we an outlier? Well, it's assumed that the support for gay marriage and LGBT rights go hand in hand. However, in a new study, that belief has been changed. While the support on gay marriage is slowly growing, my community overwhelmingly believes that no bill should limit the rights for the LGBT community.

Here's more:

African-Americans are by far the largest outlier of any of the 15 demographic groups (people were sorted according to age, race, religion and party affiliation) studied, according to Pew Research. Overall, African-Americans’ views resemble those of young adults and nonreligious Americans: 61 percent of black respondents favored laws requiring businesses to serve same-sex couples.

If you set aside responses from African-Americans, 83 percent of the variation in support for laws requiring businesses to serve same-sex couples just like straight couples is explained by support for same-sex marriage. Including African-Americans drops the variation explained to just 52 percent.

Why are African-Americans so much more in favor of anti-discrimination laws than same-sex marriage? That’s hard to say, but there are at least two opposing demographic forces at work.

On the one hand, the fact that African-Americans are more likely to be religious also makes them more likely to oppose same-sex marriage. On the other — as Claire Gecewicz and Michael Lipka of Pew Research point out — African-Americans (perhaps based on their own history of being discriminated against) are more likely than white people to say that gay Americans face discrimination.

In the case of businesses serving gay customers, opposition to discrimination was stronger than the pull of religion.
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Friday, May 18, 2012

More Black Americans are "Evolving"


In an ABC News/Washington Post poll, Black folks are slowly changing their minds on gay marriage.

Check this out
 One notable difference is by race. Just 41 percent of African-Americans supported gay marriage in ABC/Post polls in mid-2011 and early 2012. Yet 54 percent express a favorable view of his position on the issue in this poll – suggesting that, for some, allegiance to Obama may have prompted a rethink on the issue itself.
Also, more Black leaders and celebrities are coming out in support of gay marriage. Hopefully, more minds are inspired to change. 

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