This week's edition of The Black Slate deals with a couple of surface issues. The first is a poll saying that more blacks are voting for Bush this year than in 2000, a lot more if surveys are to be believed. The second is a poll examining the level of knowledge Bush supporters have about his efforts in Iraq.
But it really boils down to a number of conversations I've been having with people close to me.
In some ways those of us able to read my words either on Africana.com (soon to be Black Voices), or here on Vision Circle, are blessed. We don't have to think about politics necessarily if we don't want to. We may have strong preferences one way or another--but these preferences at a national level just tweak our lives a bit. I remember when a radio show host was giving Ben Wallace the business for having an Afro and not being "political."
Hell...we fought so you COULD wear an Afro without being "political." Do we really want to revisit that?
But I wonder whether it is absurd to ask people to make decisions based on reasoning that can be verified and more importantly DISPROVEN. 72% of Bush supporters appear to live in a world where WMD's not only exist...they were actually found.
What??
Now like I said yesterday, I'm seguing away from this. If I can get another column off Monday urging people to go to swing states and protect black people's vote--whatever their party affiliation--I might have one more election oriented column in me. I suspect we might have to wait a month or so, so there might be one more.