(ThyBlackMan.com) Actress Stacey Dash, best-known for her appearance in the film “Clueless,” is having her core ripped over her recent endorsement of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. After mentioning her support for Romney on Twitter, fans went ballistic on Dash, calling her every name in the book.
“Vote for Romney. The only choice for your future,”Stacey Dash tweeted.
That’s when the hounds came after her for expressing her opinion.
“You’re an unemployed black woman endorsing @MittRomney. You’re voting against yourself thrice. You poor beautiful idiot,” said one of her respondents.
Stacey Dash didn’t back down, but kind of did. When you’re a celebrity depending on black people to support you, you pretty much have to do what they tell you to do.
“My humble opinion… EVERYONE is entitled to one,” Stacey Dash responded, mistakenly presuming that most black people respect the concept of freedom
I remember speaking on a European cruise for the National Professionals Network this summer. We spoke about the Obama Presidency in front of a group of highly-educated black professionals. One woman stood up and said that she supported Mitt Romney and felt that African Americans are better off abandoning the Democratic Party.
I was shocked and disappointed by the fact that the woman couldn’t get a sentence out without being booed down by people who felt that Stacey Dash was some kind of sellout for not supporting President Obama. They didn’t want to hear her arguments, because some of us fear even considering a point of view that might cause us to change our minds. When I saw how the crowd reacted to this woman for simply stating her opinion, that’s when I knew we were headed into very dangerous territory.
The Obama presidency has been a true learning experience for the black community about manner by which we utilize our democratic freedoms. Since President Obama was elected, nearly any voice of dissent, on any level, has been squashed by the masses, as if all those who dare to have a differentiating opinion should be tarred and feathered in public.
This hasn’t been helped by all of the black public figures who lined up to make it clear that no one in the black community has a right to even question any decision that comes out of this administration. Voting for President Obama was not enough. You must give his administrative complete dictatorial authority over all that happens in black America. And even asking his administration to do more to earn your vote was considered to be an act of treasonous sabotage.
I’m sorry my friends, but that’s not democracy. We disrespect the presidency and the concept of liberty by oppressing each other in the way that whites have oppressed us for the last 400 years. Some of the behavior I’ve seen during the last four years has been nothing less than shameful.
I don’t agree with Stacey Dash’s support for Mitt Romney, in large part because Romney doesn’t seem to care about poor people. But the truth is that most black people don’t care about poor people either, and even consider it criminal that Cornel West has been touring the country to promote poverty for the past year (poverty and black unemployment have become the inconvenient truths of the Obama presidency). The fact is that President Obama can say or do damn near anything when it comes to limiting constitutional freedoms, dropping drones on innocent children, ignoring racial inequality, etc. and our infinite intoxication with his presidential power leads us to march along like little brainless soldiers who don’t believe in making our own decisions.
This way of thinking is very dangerous, and what we must understand is that with the power of a black presidency also comes the responsibility of doing all we can to ensure that we have a government that is for the people and by the people. You don’t get that kind of freedom by squashing all dissidents with force instead of logical arguments or handing over a blank check of approval to any leader because you are enamored with his charisma and racial identity.The easiest way to waste your vote is not by staying home at the polls. The easiest way to waste your vote is to support an administration and then destroy anyone who asks for something in return.
Stacey Dash has the right to support anyone she wants. The challenge of Democracy is not whether you can support the rights of someone who agrees with you. It is whether you can protect the liberties of those who disagree. By renting our brain space to black public figures who’ve been rewarded for backing the Obama Administration, we are failing this test in a horrible and embarrassing way.
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You mean the Jim Greer who was thrown out of office by the Republican Party because of his own impropriety and now has an ax to grind along with his pal Charlie Crist, SMH!
Hey Stacey...Here EDUCATE YOURSELF! :
Story Link : http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/national/jim-greer-denounces-florida-republican-party-officials-as-liars-right-wing/1242157.
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Former Fl. G.O.P. Leader Jim Greer said, UNDER OATH!, some GOP leaders were meeting to discuss ways they could suppress black voters.
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ANY QUESTIONS? Stacey.
Conceding that he failed to deliver at last week’s debate, President Obama says he was “just too polite”.
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Mr. President......RESPECTFULY,If you haven't Learned by NOW ! that YOU are DEALING with EVIL !
I really don't know what MORE to Say ? !
YOU for 4 YEARS have TRIED to get along with these F**KING Gangsters !
And EVERYTIME they have ' Slapped ' you in the Face !....' Punched ' YOU below The Belt !
They GOT TOGETHER on YOUR INAGURAL DAY !....and AGRED to Say : " NO ! ".... to EVERYTHING you have TRIED to FIX the Mess that President CHUCKLE NUTS left us !
From this POINT FORWARD ! YOU need to ' Take The GLOVES OFF ' and CALL OUT these LYING Rat Bastards for what they are : PURE EVIL !....Corporate Whores !....WAR MONGERS !....WAR PROFITERS !....FLAT OUT HYPOCRITES !....and ON !....and ON !....and ON !...and ON !
One Last thing Mr. President I UNDERSTAND you have to keep your COOL from The Right-Wing LIE Machine on the Radio & FALSE News Protraying you as a ' Angry Black ' Man !
But Sir....They have ALREADY CALLED you, although it has been SUTTLY RASCIST !....EVRYTHING in The BOOK !
With their ' CODED RASCIST " Language !
So YOU CAN do this without ' Losing ' Your COOL !
But YOU must START With the Next Debate !
GOOD LUCK and 4 More Years !
I understand her position. Every black person should get off the presidents jock and look at the facts:
1. Black people make up the largest % of un/under employed.
2. Black people are 5 times more likely to be discriminated/profiled/rejected because of race.
3. Black people experienced a spike in racism related violence then all other races combined.
4. Black people have the highest numbers of dropouts from school.
5. Black people endure an unequal justice system, and the innocence project is having convictions overturned regularly.
6. Black people were heavily affected by the mortgage failures.
7. Black people are dealing with expanding numbers of homelessness.
8. Black people still endure red lining.
9. Black people are major targets for the illegal drug trade.
10. Black voter aged Americans have been hen pecked by democrats since JFK, and these same conditions have persisted since then.
President Obama is the first black President, and has never addressed these issues and others that effect black Americans in particularly devastating proportion because he doesn't want to play identity politics. But, illegal immigrants are important enough to him to bend the identity politics rule.
Maybe the positions and legislative efforts he mustered for the gay rights agenda is defined as something other than identity politics. smh
He doesn't even show up to black events because he understands that black people have issues too, that he is either not prepared to address, or afraid of what white America will think of him if he does.
You guys are mere cult members. I pray there is not another Jonestowm massacre brewing.
This Is Simple And Does Not Need To be Debated - Pro Obama people of color must never be allowed to limit our freedom of expression in anyway.
In fighting for another person's liberty, we guarantee our own. Voltaire said it best. http://www.sslumpsum.com
"I may not agree with what you say, but I will fight to the death for your right to say it" -Voltaire
At least she's not asking us to pay for her birth control like Sandra Fluke that's screwing everything on campus!
The treatment of Stacey Dash as described in this article illustrates the sad state to which we have come. So many of us can't endure anyone holding a different opinion from our own without launching a vicious personal attack. That is not a problem this election is going to solve, and it will do us more harm than either candidate will ever do. Beyond this election, we so need to pull together as a people to make a number of things happen, but there can be no collective trust and thus no collaboration in an environment in which expressing a different political opinion gets one ripped to shreds. Life will go right on no matter who wins the election; we need to take a longer view in terms of our reaction to people's politics. Stacey Dash has one vote, but she may have much more to offer to the community, much that may not now be offered. We need to stop blowing up long-term possibility for short-term blasting sessions.
kill that dumb bitch
Fuck Stacey Dash,and the cracker Mitt Romney,he has probably had his dick in this trashy bitch.