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    ^^If you are talking pure numbers then lets examine that. There are roughly 38million blacks in this country (13.1%). Half of those are voting age (thats being extremely generous). That's leaves 19million. Minus the 700K in jail. That leaves just over 18million. 90% voted for Obama. That's roughly 16million people right? Now whites make up roughly 70% of the US population. Which is 210million people. Half are of voting age. That's 105 million. 15% considered race is a factor. That means that roughly 12million whites won't admittingly vote for Obama. So going strictly by the numbers, there isn't a huge difference. And that is only taking the whites who admit to voting on race factors.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BgMc31 View Post
    ^^If you are talking pure numbers then lets examine that. There are roughly 38million blacks in this country (13.1%). Half of those are voting age (thats being extremely generous). That's leaves 19million. Minus the 700K in jail. That leaves just over 18million. 90% voted for Obama. That's roughly 16million people right? Now whites make up roughly 70% of the US population. Which is 210million people. Half are of voting age. That's 105 million. 15% considered race is a factor. That means that roughly 12million whites won't admittingly vote for Obama. So going strictly by the numbers, there isn't a huge difference. And that is only taking the whites who admit to voting on race factors.
    I was getting ready to jump on you for saying %90 of 18 million is 9 million :P. This argument you're making seems like semantics. Per capita theres more racism in the black community if we're defining racism as voting for someone who has the same skin color.

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    Quote Originally Posted by zartan View Post
    Per capita theres more racism in the black community if we're defining racism as voting for someone who has the same skin color.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Carlos_E View Post
    No we're not. You are.
    lol, see thread title:
    A measure of racism: 15 percent?

    the poll was about who would take race into account, you equated as a measure of racism.

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    it should be labeled:
    A measure of racism: 90 percent?

    90% is a much more startling statistic.
    Oh, I forgot its 90% because Obama is just that different/better than Hitlery politically. lol, they have very similar viewpoints politically. Black people vote for Obama because he's black. They should rephrase the poll and send it to black people, 'Would you vote for a white candidate if there was a viable black running against', the numbers would be much higher than 8 or 15%. Watch in the general election, Obama will have most of the black REPUBLICAN vote as well (he will have close to 100% of the black vote), Why? Its the same reason black people defend Obama or Jeremy Wright so staunchly in previous threads. And I hope you say the reason is "we have similar viewpoints/experiences as black people, so we just understand each other better" because then I can tell you how hypocritical and just plain silly it is to call white people racist for doing the same thing.
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