How would you feel if you were sitting in class and you had an opportunity to get a 100% on a test and you ended up with a 4.7%? If it was a national literary test or a test for employment blacks would be screaming it was racially biased if they ended up with an average score of 4.7%. Lawyers and lawsuits would be flying like flying saucers.
Failing tests has never been my thing. Personally I'm outraged and I know there are probably 95.3% of the black voting population that may not care. Or at least their actions in this last election support symptoms of apathy.
So my question is why when blacks are faced with an opportunity to succeed on a test by just showing up blacks fail miserably? Blacks got 95.3% of it wrong. What happened? As a group blacks left 95.3% of the questions unanswered. The answers did not require any studying, like voting it was a choice whether or not you wanted to study the candidates position for this test. On an individual basis, there were no wrong answers. The only thing that was going to happen was the answers were going to be counted to determine a winner. For purposes of this test blacks were counted as a whole to equal 100%.
You could have had the test (ballot) read to you if you couldn't read it. Close your eyes and make a selection if you wanted to.
The most perplexing question is who do blacks really support? Well I really don't think blacks had enough of a turnout to call it. Elections are not a random sampling folks. Elections are held for people to exercise their right to vote.
The initial inference is that everyone who is registered to vote will come out to vote, thus that's were the 100% comes from. If I was looking at statistics like this I would quickly surmise this was a random sampling, 4.7% out of a population of 100%. However, the election is not a random sampling, it is all-inclusive of 100% of the registered voter population. Elections are not designed to be random samplings they are designed to include the whole population of registered voters.
If you feel so strongly your vote doesn't make a difference vote anyways to get blacks closer to the 100% turnout. Make a difference with the margin of error being towards at least making the count.
If the candidates appearing on the ballot are not impressive, well you have the opportunity to affect change in that regards as well. Don't wait until the last minute. Start early helping to get candidates on the next ballot who would empower you and the other 95.3% who didn't vote to get inspired with the initiative to get out and vote. In fact, why not start today researching what you needs to happen for a person to run for election.
Get it together and get candidates who meet your standards on the ballot. Then maybe we can turn the percentages around and get a 95.3% turnout and a 4.7% no show rate. Our children are watching what is happening.
As long as anyone succumbs to indifference things won't change. Change can only be affected from within. I certainly hope this is not a message that 95.3% of blacks don't think change is necessary. Lord help us. If there are only 4.7% out of a possible100% in the the game it sends the message we are okay with more of the same. Does the word "complacency" ring a bell?
Now when blacks complain about anything the response to 95.3% of them will be "shut up". And we know blacks don't like to be told "shut up". When I was a child those were fighting words. Blacks had a voice and did not use it at an alarming rate of about 95.3%.
Learn to be a team player and play the game by the rules. I'm dismayed my grandchildren are having to listen to these reports of apathy on the news. Is apathy becoming the new black? I certainly hope not.
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