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Stacey Dash Learns: If Youre Black and Dont Support Obama, Youre Going to be Tortured
Stacey Dash Learns: If Youre Black and Dont Support Obama, Youre Going to be Tortured
Added by James on October 9, 2012.
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Tags: Mitt Romney, Stacey Dash
by Dr. Boyce Watkins
Actress Stacey Dash, best-known for her appearance in the film Clueless, is having her core ripped over her recent endorsement of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. After mentioning her support for Romney on Twitter, fans went ballistic on Dash, calling her every name in the book.
Vote for Romney. The only choice for your future, Dash tweeted.
Thats when the hounds came after her for expressing her opinion.
Youre an unemployed black woman endorsing @MittRomney. Youre voting against yourself thrice. You poor beautiful idiot, said one of her respondents.
Dash didnt back down, but kind of did. When youre a celebrity depending on black people to support you, you pretty much have to do what they tell you to do.
My humble opinion
EVERYONE is entitled to one, Dash responded, mistakenly presuming that most black people respect the concept of freedom of speech.
http://blacklikemoi.com/2012/10/stacey-dash-learns-if-youre-black-and-dont-support-obama-youre-going-to-be-tortured/#
I believe she has the right to support whoever she wants, but She acts like her taxes are going to skyrocket under the president. LMFAO!
CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)Why don't RWers get that?
They can say what they like and people can criticize them for saying it.
get the red out
(13,466 posts)If they express theirs it's ok, you express yours back and it is WWIII and they are the poor pitiful victims.
Johonny
(20,851 posts)that's how it works for the GOPers. They claim the world ends if Obama wins, your only two choices are to accept it as true, or praise them for their unique outlook on life. Have an opinion yourself and they smear you as intolerant. She has the makings of the next Tim Tebow.
lalalu
(1,663 posts)Intolerance has developed on both sides. The extremists are winning.
Johonny
(20,851 posts)American politics has shifted towards the right. There is little evidence to show leftest extremist have taken over the democratic party. For instance the Obama administration is a moderate conservative administration. The extreme leftist of the DU are fighting to keep a moderate conservative administration. There just isn't much extreme left in the mainstream to influence politics. There are extreme leftist at the DU, but the DU is hardly mainstream and note even though they spent 4 years telling us the extreme left would abandon Obama, we're all here fighting to keep him. I just don't see the both sides do it to the same degree. If the extreme left were so intolerant Obama would be toast. The moderate conservatives are winning and have been winning for a long time in national politics.
lalalu
(1,663 posts)The extreme left does exist and has tried on numerous occasions to derail things when they didn't go their way.
lalalu
(1,663 posts)supported General Lee over General Grant. She has a right to her opinion. People also have the right to call her out for the idiot she is. There were actually a few slaves who fought for the confederates and yet reaped the benefits of freedom when it came. There were black people who refused to join the Civil Rights movement and were afraid to "upset" things but reaped the benefits that came with the civil rights victories.
There will always be black people who will fight against their own best interests. Just as there are poor and working class white people voting against their own best interests. Many times such white people are called ignorant white fools or trash and I see no reason why she shouldn't get the same treatment.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)lalalu
(1,663 posts)I notice she did not go into depth on why she would vote for Romney. One thing being under reported is the number of black ministers preaching to their congregation that they should not vote for President Obama because of his support of gay rights.
I do believe democrats are not combating this enough. We need to realize that churches cannot be counted on to help get out the vote and may actually be working against the president.
LisaL
(44,973 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)on the other hand, if all women with fake boobs go for him, he could carry California. First Jenna Jameson, then some starlet who for whatever reason has a Twitter following, and now this.
Brickbat
(19,339 posts)jsmirman
(4,507 posts)And using that as their core strategy for how to win.
Idiot.
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)Clueless? I guess so.
B2G
(9,766 posts)but black who vote Republican are house n******?
God I hate this shit.
truebrit71
(20,805 posts)...your point??
It isn't that a black person is voting for a white person, it's a black person voting for this SPECIFIC white person who holds people like her in utter and complete contempt...
"The only choice if you're a woman"....Just how clueless is this broad?
B2G
(9,766 posts)to the color of their skin.
I don't understand that. I don't understand why the color of one's skin is a reason to justify attacking who they choose to vote for. I thought we wanted to move beyond that.
Response to B2G (Reply #17)
LanternWaste This message was self-deleted by its author.
lalalu
(1,663 posts)don't like black people. You have to be pretty clueless to not understand that. Race is an issue because she has chosen to vote for a white man who holds her in contempt because of various reasons and race is one of them. If the republican nominee were Herman Cain it would also be stupid to vote for him because of other reasons.
It just happens that Romney spent many decades indoctrinated in a religion that openly preached blacks were cursed and inferior. He holds a high ranking status in this religion. Despite their so called denunciation they still follow policies that keep blacks from holding offices and positions of authority. Do you seriously think someone like Mitt cares about Mrs. Dash? She would truly be in the 47%.
Ecumenist
(6,086 posts)Mormon canon. She's an idiot.
CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)The poster just said she's "Clueless".
This is *Democratic* Underground, so calling someone "clueless" for supporting a Repub is not a big stretch.
It was you who brought in the racist extrapolations.
lalalu
(1,663 posts)and democrats need to stop pretending it isn't. America needs to stop pretending race is not a factor. Ms. Dash needs to stop pretending also. The whole pretending is why there are still so many problems.
bongbong
(5,436 posts)Since repigs have gotten steadily more racist and hate-filled since Obama won in 2008.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)ohheckyeah
(9,314 posts)endorses?
Tortured? LOL Not hardly.
AzDar
(14,023 posts)underoath
(269 posts)or else she is voting against her best interest?
lalalu
(1,663 posts)I am more interested in why she is not voting for President Obama and I notice she won't tell that part. I would bet her reasons are the ones that are bigoted and ignorant.
I would actually like for her to be able to speak and have her real reasons out in the open. Unfortunately shutting down people and their views is very popular these days and it is on both sides.
There was a time liberals were willing to have what we called "rap sessions" and sometimes it got heated but people were allowed to talk. As I told someone else the biggest critics today of a show like "All In The Family" would probably be liberals. They would consider Archie Bunker politically incorrect and want him off the air.
Ecumenist
(6,086 posts)innate self hatred that they disguise from themselves based on the hue and tone of their skin and texture of their hair. Would NOT surprise me to find that out.
lalalu
(1,663 posts)Ecumenist
(6,086 posts)lalalu
(1,663 posts)bongbong
(5,436 posts)The reason she is voting against her own interest has a bit, but not the majority, to do with skin color.
The biggest reason she is voting against her own interest is that the only people - the ONLY people - who do better under repigs are people with 9 figure or more assets. And they're planning on getting rid of the Middle Class and turning them into homeless people.
obamanut2012
(26,079 posts)Lydia Leftcoast
(48,217 posts)What else is new?
bigdarryl
(13,190 posts)CatWoman
(79,302 posts)she played Richard Pryor's daughter in the movie "Moving"
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)This is a person I think we can reach.
qanda
(10,422 posts)When you say something like Mitt Romney is the only choice for your future then you deserve to be denigrated regardless of what color you are. BTW, I'm black and I don't know who the heck she is.
standingtall
(2,785 posts)and besides that I don't have a tweeter or a facebook account, and probably never will, but it is my understanding that can be limited to friends and family. When you open your endorsement to the general public on the internet you should be expecting some backlash to begin with.
I have a feeling she was looking for something to revive her career and good or bad people are talking about her. She may even find a new gig on Fox News.
underpants
(182,823 posts)and I am not saying that because she may well be the SMOKING HOTTEST woman on the planet.