Get ready to be blamed if the 2010 elections don’t turn out the way America’s black candidates want the elections to turn out!
No, it’s never the candidate’s fault when an election is lost. Candidates can’t blame their very highly paid devilish consultants.
So, many African Americans end up saying things like, “Black voters didn’t get out and vote” or “Black folks wouldn’t contribute to my campaign!”
It doesn’t stop there. The Black candidates will say the Black newspapers wouldn’t endorse them or publish their press releases. They’ll say the Black Churches wouldn’t let me interrupt services to give a campaign speech. And, they’ll say more Blacks should have volunteered to do work on my campaign because all of my contributions went to pay the campaign’s non-Black political vendors.
If it takes a village to raise a child, it also takes a village to generate votes to elect an African American candidate!
It doesn’t matter what race, creed or color a candidate is, no person running for office in a political race that includes significant numbers of registered Black votes can take African American voters for granted.
When Black voters stay at home, Black candidates lose. When Black voters feel it is best for them to vote for non-Black candidates, Black candidates lose.
Two years ago, history was made when a man of African descent was elected President of the United States. This year history will be made again when more than a few seats currently held by Black Governors and Black US Senators will be lost and perhaps never regained.
Black candidates running in 2010 elections think they are imitating Barack Obama when they have non-Black campaign managers and staffs directing their political efforts. But to me, they seem to be demonstrating a severe political inferiority complex!
Don’t take my word for it, check your candidate’s campaign expenditure reports and records. Most Blacks running for office in 2010 have shown by their expenditures that Black businessmen and women can’t design an ad or direct mail piece, Blacks can’t produce and place a newspaper ad, TV ad or radio ad. Blacks can’t do a poll or a phone bank and Blacks can’t even cook a campaign chicken or a mullet fish!
Get mad with me if you want to but there will be a low turnout of Black voters in 2010 elections. The turnout will be low because Black voters don’t really know the Black candidates running for office, turnout will be low because the preferred campaign consultants don’t have a clue about how to motivate and inspire Black voters and turnout will be low because the majority of registered Black voters are tired of going to the polls and choosing to vote for political clowns masquerading as sincere public servants.
Black voters are tired of going to the political election dinner and being asked to sit at the table with nothing on their political plates!
Black candidates can be successful in 2010 elections if they become real Black candidates that will be proud of the communities they are seeking to represent and refrain from parroting the false promises and lies suggested by their carpet bagging political advisors.
By Lucius Gantt
