The Bob Johnson Attack Is Back: Now Teaming Up With Geraldine Ferraro

April 16th, 2008

Bob Johnson courtesy of executivebiz dot com
I thought we got rid of this guy in South Carolina.

But I hope he keeps talking though, as 3 important primaries approach. The last time he shot off his mouth, he helped to increase Obama’s momentum on the way to a big victory.

    Johnson said to the Charlotte Observer that:

    “What I believe Geraldine Ferraro meant is that if you take a freshman senator from Illinois called ‘Jerry Smith’ and he says I’m going to run for president, would he start off with 90 percent of the black vote?” “And the answer is, probably not.”

Ferraro’s ridiculous comments have already been deconstructed, but now Johnson adds new fallacy to it; which in truth is simply in contradiction to the FACTS.

Obama didn’t start of with 90% of the Black vote, in fact he started off with way less than half the Black vote right after he announced, and Clinton with the majority; 28% to 52% respectively. Then in the next month Clinton’s lead went up to over 60% amongst Black voters.

Even by the time the primaries rolled around in January of ’08, Obama still only had about 60% of Black vote in the national polls, and in the first state where Blacks voted in any significant numbers; after Bob Johnson and the Clinton’s shot their race baiting mouths off; he still only got 71%, a far cry from 90% even more than a year into his candidacy.

So apparently this billionaire has a problem with basic arithmetic; or, he’s just a propagandist; and like his candidate, will say anything to help her get elected.

Bob Johnson is a North Carolina native, where he lives and owns the Charlotte Bobcats. He makes these comments ahead of an upcoming May 6th primary in his state. The founder and former owner of BET also must have problems with history as well as math.

If being Black gave you an advantage, and made you a front runner; then why’d Al Sharpton and Carol Mosely-Bruan’s candidacy’s not even get off the ground just 4 years,ago? Neither placed first or second in even one primary or caucus. And no matter how much the race-baiters try to gerry-rig Geraldine Ferraro’s comments, she didn’t say that race was a factor; she said that people were voting for him simply because they’re wrapped in the “concept” of a Black president; which is to say that there are no substantive reasons why anyone’s voting for Obama, it’s all affirmative action. And she said the same thing about Jesse Jackson in ‘88; so we have a long pattern of her dismissing any Black candidate who gets any level of popular support.

Here’s another fact the pair obviously don’t bother with; the fact that out of the 9 states that have an 85% or better white population Obama won 7 of those and tied for delegates in one other. You can’t come close to winning the nomination with only Black support, as Blacks represent less than a quarter of the Democrat’s electorate.

This cultural pimp, who made his money off of selling drug culture, gang fanaticism, and strip club hooker culture through hours of crass videos everyday beamed into our homes, should just sit down somewhere and be quiet. Well, on the other hand if he keeps talking he’ll keep burying himself and his candidate.

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4 Responses to “The Bob Johnson Attack Is Back: Now Teaming Up With Geraldine Ferraro”

  1. S. Justice on April 17th, 2008 2:26 pm | link

    I find it sad and amusing for anyone to take seriously a person who made billions of dollars showing off images of black people in the most degrading and stereotypical way. It’s clear that no matter how much wealth you have, you can still be an Uncle Tom.

  2. D. Yobachi Boswell on April 17th, 2008 2:57 pm | link

    Yep, you can’t by class and you can’t buy dignity.

  3. Kevin on April 18th, 2008 6:32 pm | link

    Seriously, this dude needs to sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up.

  4. D. Yobachi Boswell on April 19th, 2008 5:18 am | link

    LOL Kevin, you don’t usually cuss; you must be really annoyed.

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