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I'm voting for the president because....

Today's column about black radio host Tom Joyner urging his listeners to reelect President Obama because he's black made for some spirited reader reaction. My voicemail and mailbox were full of opinions that ran the spectrum.

17 comments

I'm voting for the president because....

POSTED: Friday, October 21, 2011, 4:12 PM

A sampling:

"There is a double standard in this country when it comes to blacks and whites. Blacks can call a white person any derogatory name, without any consequences. Blacks can tell other blacks to vote black without any cry of racism. Let a white person say the same," wrote Joseph DeCarlo of Sewell, NJ.

But then a reader left the following message: "I don't think it's just Tom Joyner. I got my Jewish newsletter in the mail today and it told us to reelect Obama, to not be idiots. I don't blame Joyner for feeling like that....I don't blame me for feeling that way.

Annette John-Hall @ 4:12 PM Permalink | 17 comments

17 comments

Comments (17)

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 4:38 PM, 10/21/2011

Not sure President Obama can solve our problems, but I am damn sure that the wack job Republicans will make things worse. (Except if your'e rich or a corporation)

— 42Homestead

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 6:19 PM, 10/21/2011

I agree!

— Worker1

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 4:47 PM, 10/21/2011

"White people have always voted [based on] identity." Really? Who put Barack Obama in the White House? Blacks? Hardly. Do the math. There weren't enough blacks voting last time to elect Obama. Blacks, along with whites, elected Obama.

— Boru

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 9:47 AM, 10/24/2011

We've had nothing but white Presidents for two hundred years. You're telling me that the majority of white people don't vote white? Spare us the hyperbole.

— taxmanndumbeth

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 5:00 PM, 10/21/2011

Thre are 2 kinds of racism....VOTING for a person because he's black or NOT voting for a person because he's black. But because Joyner's black, if I call him a bigot, that means I'm racist right?
As far as Prof. Johnson, logic like that will keep him teaching at a college nobody ever heard of forever.

— jimmymack

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 5:07 PM, 10/21/2011

Old photo of the Empty Suit unless they airbrushed the grey away

— 2ndNlong

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 5:27 PM, 10/21/2011

It is not the white folks who continue to endlessly draw color lines....

— kelprod2

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 5:31 PM, 10/21/2011

I am voting for Obama because I do not want to turn to the old days of hatred towards women, children, minorities, and gays, thanks to the Republican party. Republicans have always hated blacks, enslaving them in the name of Jesus, passing Jim Crow laws, and segregation. Let's not forget they all voted against the Civil Rights Act and would love to repeal the 13th Amendment. A vote against Obama next year is a vote for Bush, Cheney, Rumsfled, and Palin, all of them criminals that belong in jail for crimes against America and the world.

— eldiablodelsol2009

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 5:42 PM, 10/21/2011

Is that what you learned in the Philly public schools?

— Falls Ed

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 6:19 PM, 10/21/2011

Truth is, all of us exercise identity politics, says Jason Johnson, a professor of political science at Hiram College. "White people have always voted [based on] identity," he says. "Irish, Catholic, women. It's nothing new."

Really? If that was true Obama would never have been elected. And this guy is educating young minds?

— Sheriff Bart

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 6:27 PM, 10/21/2011

eldiablodelsol2009-Go get a history book, or just take the lazy easy way out and look up the Civil Rights Act on wiki

— TomM

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 12:14 AM, 10/22/2011

I am voting against Obama because he is black, there we cancel each other out.

— TKL008

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 3:02 PM, 10/22/2011

Considering the pile of dung he inherited from Bush and the Republicans in Congress, he has done a good job.
* Saved the US economy from a depression
* Passed the Affordable Care Act
* Repealed DADT
* Created jobs consistently since 2009
* Saved the US auto industry
* Dismantled Al Qaeda
* Thwarted numerous terrorist attacks in the US
* Authorized the military operation that killed OBL
* Stabilized Iraq and will withdraw US troops by the end of the year

He will get my vote because the Republicans are really that much worse!

— Think for myself