ESPNS STEPHEN A. SMITH: FOR ONE ELECTION, EVERY BLACK PERSON SHOULD VOTE REPUBLICAN
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by TRENT BAKER
18 Mar 2015
Nashville, TN1300
NASHVILLE, TN On Tuesday, ESPN regular Stephen A. Smith spoke at the Impact Symposium at Vanderbilt University on the topic of How You See It: Perceptions of (In)Equality.
Smith believes that every black person in America should vote Republican at least once so that both parties could address their interests.
What I dream is that for one election, just one, every black person in America vote Republican, he said. Because from what Ive read, and Im open to correction, but from what Ive read, Barry Goldwater is going against Lyndon B. Johnson. Hes your Republican candidate. He is completely against the Civil Rights Movement. Lyndon B. Johnson was in favor of it. What happens is, he wins office, Barry Goldwater loses office, but there was a senate, a Republican senate, that pushed the votes to the presidents desk. It was the Democrats who were against Civil Rights legislation. So because President Lyndon B. Johnson was a Democrat, black America assumed the Democrats were for it.
He also added, Black folks in America are telling one party, We dont give a damn about you. Theyre telling the other party Youve got our vote. Therefore, you have labeled yourself disenfranchised because one party knows theyve got you under their thumb. The other party knows theyll never get you and nobody comes to address your interest.
00:00 / 04:01
by TRENT BAKER
18 Mar 2015
Nashville, TN1300
NASHVILLE, TN On Tuesday, ESPN regular Stephen A. Smith spoke at the Impact Symposium at Vanderbilt University on the topic of How You See It: Perceptions of (In)Equality.
Smith believes that every black person in America should vote Republican at least once so that both parties could address their interests.
What I dream is that for one election, just one, every black person in America vote Republican, he said. Because from what Ive read, and Im open to correction, but from what Ive read, Barry Goldwater is going against Lyndon B. Johnson. Hes your Republican candidate. He is completely against the Civil Rights Movement. Lyndon B. Johnson was in favor of it. What happens is, he wins office, Barry Goldwater loses office, but there was a senate, a Republican senate, that pushed the votes to the presidents desk. It was the Democrats who were against Civil Rights legislation. So because President Lyndon B. Johnson was a Democrat, black America assumed the Democrats were for it.
He also added, Black folks in America are telling one party, We dont give a damn about you. Theyre telling the other party Youve got our vote. Therefore, you have labeled yourself disenfranchised because one party knows theyve got you under their thumb. The other party knows theyll never get you and nobody comes to address your interest.
