Smith concluded, “I’m not trying to encourage anybody to vote Republican, I’m — not trying to encourage anybody to vote Democrat, I’m simply saying let’s not be so transparent in our support for one party over another, when that does not appear to be working for us. Force people to flatter us.”
ESPN Commentator Stephen A. Smith argued that “the black vote has been taken for granted” and that black voters have given the Democrats “license to take us for granted” on Saturday’s “Smerconish” on CNN.
“I definitely believe that the black vote has been taken for granted, and primarily the black community is at fault, in my estimation, in that regard, simply because, on one hand we’re giving one party our vote because they’ve successfully gone about the business of convincing our community that the other party, the Republican Party, is completely against the interests of the black community, and as a result, we’ve been very transparent in our support, we’ve voted hook, line, and sinker, we look at the Republican Party — I’m not talking about every single one of us of course, but [the] vast majority of black Americans look at the Republican Party as the enemy, we look at the Democratic Party, even tacitly, as our support base, and as a result, we are very transparent in our support for them. So, because of it, they have a license to take us for granted, the Republican Party has a license to summarily dismiss us because they believe they’ll never get our vote anyway, and then we end up finding ourselves devoid of any kind of representation whatsoever, because nobody is really competing to garner our vote and our support” he stated.
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