https://www.yahoo.com/news/mitch-mcconnell-says-black-people-141822060.html
Mitch McConnell says Black people vote just as much as 'Americans'
U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is trending on Twitter after making an insidious comment related to voting rights, in which he implied African Americans are not Americans.
After a vote to move the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act to the Senate floor failed Wednesday, McConnell was asked by a reporter about concerns among voters of color.
"Well the concern is misplaced, because if you look at the statistics, African American voters are voting in just as high a percentage as Americans," McConnell responded.
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"Being Black doesn’t make you less of an American, no matter what this craven man thinks," former Kentucky Rep. Charles Booker tweeted.
"In one quote, he summarized the entire GOP worldview. They think it’s a White nation and anyone who isn’t White isn’t a true American," tweeted another person.
Anyone who doesn't realize that media has an agenda, isn't paying attention.
Look at this one very simple example.
The headline reads; Mitch McConnell says Black people vote just as much as 'Americans'
But McConnell said; "Well the concern is misplaced, because if you look at the statistics, African American voters are voting in just as high a percentage as Americans," McConnell responded.
It's pretty easy to see how McConnell could say that. If you have a group of people who identify as African American, then they are holding themselves up as not simply American. Mitch definitely could have said 'other Americans' or 'white Americans', but he didn't and I see where it's an easy slip.
Having said that, the article above was posted by someone from USA Today and they took it from a Louisville paper that used the actual quote as the headline of their story. WHY would USA Today change it? Because it's more sensational and harder to understand the slip, if you want to call it that.
NOW we have people jumping on that and using it to distract from what McConnell was saying which was; there is no vote suppression of blacks in this country, they are voting at the same level as whites and other Americans.
That is the discussion they (the black community, media, democrats, etc.) don't want to have because what McConnell said is easlly provable.
Just thought this was an interesting example of how media uses headlines knowing people won't read much farther than that.
KC