Wednesday, May 1, 2013

NC: Obama housing nominee: Most white people won’t vote for black candidate, should be excluded from ‘democratic process’

Via Ryan


 It's coming.

President Obama’s pick to head the Federal Housing Finance Agency once said that a “majority of white voters” would never vote for a black candidate and that they should be excluded from “the democratic process.”
 
The White House announced Wednesday that Obama will nominate Democratic North Carolina Congressman Mel Watt to take over the FHFA, which regulates Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the country’s government sponsored mortgage companies.

Watt, the former chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, has in the past accused white Americans of racism.

“There would be a substantial majority of white voters who would say that under no circumstances would they vote for an African American candidate,” Watt said Oct. 14, 2005 during a Washington hearing held by the National Commission on the Voting Rights Act.

The Voting Rights Act should be expanded to “adjust districts to take [racially motivated voting] into account,” Watts said.

Such voters “need to be factored out of the equation,” Watt said, because “I’ve got no use for them in the democratic process.”

According to a contemporaneous report of the hearing published by the Cybercast News Service, Watt said that black voters — unlike whites — don’t have “an absolute commitment” to voting for a candidate based on race.

“Black people have not had the luxury of being able to say, ‘Under no circumstances will I vote

4 comments:

  1. Yep like the 110% of the ppl in one district here in Cleveland Ohio voting for Obama, nope not a misprint ..........

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  2. Mel Watt must have flunked college algebra because by my calculus "white people" elected Barack Obama. The best thing about Watt being appointed to his FHA post is that he will no longer be a congressman from NC and with any luck he'll move to DC permanently.

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    1. The best thing about Watt being appointed to his FHA post is that he will no longer be a congressman from NC and with any luck he'll move to DC permanently.

      I hadn't thought of that and good news it would be.:) Don't know why your comment just surfaced.

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