 
Sharkskin
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Username: Sharkskin
Post Number: 257
Registered: 10-2004
Posted From: 66.178.227.202
| | Posted on Monday, August 01, 2005 - 11:34 am: |    |
I've been seeing campaign signs saying "Vote for the Black Slate" on them recently. There's one on the corner of Lodge and Livernois, and I've seen a couple of others here and there. Is this what I think it is? A call to boycott any non-black candidates for positions in Detroit government? Or is there a motive that I haven't hit upon yet? |
Sharkskin
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Username: Sharkskin
Post Number: 258
Registered: 10-2004
Posted From: 66.178.227.202
| | Posted on Monday, August 01, 2005 - 11:37 am: | |
Oops--answered my own question. Political arm of the Shrine of the Black Madonna. Nevermind. |
Jdmdetroit
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Username: Jdmdetroit
Post Number: 113
Registered: 11-2003
Posted From: 69.246.1.255
| | Posted on Monday, August 01, 2005 - 10:49 pm: | |
They endorsed Lonnie Bates. End of story. |
Ilovedetroit
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Username: Ilovedetroit
Post Number: 976
Registered: 02-2005
Posted From: 68.42.170.20
| | Posted on Monday, August 01, 2005 - 10:51 pm: | |
Don't worry JDM they did not endorse your wife for CC. However, I sent an email to about 150 friends of mine with your wife on their as one of my picks! I met her at a MCPhail event and was very impressed! SARAH SNOW FOR CITY COUNCIL! |
Bostedguy
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Username: Bostedguy
Post Number: 74
Registered: 07-2005
Posted From: 69.212.58.193
| | Posted on Monday, August 01, 2005 - 11:07 pm: | |
They are trying to tell the "unenlightened black folk" who to vote for so that they don't have to think for themselves. If they're the Black Slate, they must be good for Detroit, right?
They even hand them out at my polling location. I usually say, "What the hell would I want with that?" |
Danny
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Username: Danny
Post Number: 2750
Registered: 02-2004
Posted From: 141.217.173.154
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 02, 2005 - 9:50 am: | |
No Bostedguy,
The Black slate or the so-called " vote straight" for is a bad ideal. It lures the majority voters by race away from political thinking and they not going to be able to vote for their own principles. |
Bostedguy
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Username: Bostedguy
Post Number: 75
Registered: 07-2005
Posted From: 69.212.34.217
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 02, 2005 - 11:35 am: | |
Right, Danny....I was being sarcastic.... |
Rasputin
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Username: Rasputin
Post Number: 3197
Registered: 10-2003
Posted From: 205.188.116.201
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 02, 2005 - 7:42 pm: | |
Way to go Sharkskin .... that dumb-ass doesn't deserve or need to know!!!!! He's about as dumb as Bosted-whatever!!!
Black-atcha .... saying, "...So much for the new white Ghetto living folks!!" |
Eastside
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Username: Eastside
Post Number: 466
Registered: 01-2005
Posted From: 68.42.170.57
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 03, 2005 - 12:46 am: | |
Is KK the head of the slate? |
Leoqueen
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Username: Leoqueen
Post Number: 583
Registered: 07-2004
Posted From: 152.163.100.195
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 03, 2005 - 6:32 pm: | |
The Black Slate has been around for as long as I can remember...a pollster at the church where I vote put one in my hand before I could scurry in. Of course when I saw KK at the top of the slate I tore it up |