It’s no overstatement to say that Barack Obama would not be president if Latino and especially black voters had not turned the 2008 election into a holy crusade—not an election, in the traditional sense, but a holy crusade. That bears repeating because minority voters do not decide presidential elections. White voters do. But 2008 was the exception, solely because Latinos and blacks saw an Obama White House as the fulfillment of the American racial dream.
It took barely two years for that dream to come unraveled. The newest Gallup poll found that black voters are poised to desert the voting booth en masse in November. By a nearly 2 to 1 gap, whites are more likely to say that they are thinking about the November elections than blacks. This divide is far greater than the typical white-versus-minority voter participation gap found in recent midterm elections.
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It was a surprise that President Obama won the presidential election. It is still possible that he could win again even though the polls show different. I truly believe that if same people vote for him or young African Americans go out and vote he will win. This next election will be a tough one but we as African Americans should push for our people to vote for President Obama because he has done his best I believe. We should also keep in mind that many of our young black African American males can note vote because a lot of them wants changes but because of felony records they have no voice in the system and all of these young males are not reaaly bad people but made foolish mistakes
ReplyDeleteIt may have come as a surprise that Obama won the presidential election, but with all the great civil rights accomplishments were made it should not have come as a surprise. There have been people who fought to make this event a reality. Even if the Latino and black vote were the pivotal influences to this event becoming reality. This is a signal that things have changed, and yet and still there are uncompleted issues that have yet to be resolved.
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