Edited by Azizi Powell
This is Part I of a two part pancocojams series about the Democratic Party's results of Super Tuesday (March 3, 2020).
Part I provides information about the voting day in the United States that is known as "Super Tuesday" and includes an excerpt to an article about the Super Tuesday results for the Democratic Party on March 3, 202o.
Part I of this pancocojams series also showcases an excerpt of an article published in Daily Kos's political forum about Super Tuesday's United States Presidential Primaries (March 3, 2020) & Black folks overwhelmingly voting for United State's Former Vice-President Joe Biden. That is written by Denise Oliver Velez and is entitled "'God don't like ugly' is what my grandma used to say".
The Addendum to Part I provides an explanation about the African American Vernacular English term "being disinvited to the BBQ" that is included in that article.
Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2020/03/black-folks-overwhelmingly-voted-for_4.html for Part II of this pancocojams series. Part II provides selected comments from the discussion thread for the Daily Kos (political) article about why Black folks overwhelming voted for Former Vice President Biden on Super Tuesday (March 3, 2020). That article by Denise Oliver Velez is entitled "'God don't like ugly' is what my grandma used to say".
The author of this article is African American. The selected comments that are featured in this pancocojams compilation are from African Americans and non-African Americans -all of whom are members of that political forum. [For the record, I'm a frequent visitor of that forum, but I'm not a member.]
This post documents the opinions that are shared in these article excerpts and selected comments. I'm also particularly interested in the use of African American Vernacular sayings & terms in that article and some of those comments.
For those interested in United States politics and/or African American culture, I strongly recommend reading the entire article and its discussion thread.
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Thanks to Denise Oliver Velez, the author of the Daily Kos article that is showcased in this post and thanks to all those who are quoted in this post.
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INFORMATION ABOUT UNITED STATES' "SUPER TUESDAY" VOTING
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Tuesday
"Super Tuesday is the United States presidential primary election day in February or March when the greatest number of U.S. states hold primary elections and caucuses. Approximately one-third of all delegates to the presidential nominating conventions can be won on Super Tuesday, more than on any other day. The results on Super Tuesday are therefore a strong indicator of the likely eventual nominee of each political party.
The particular states holding primaries on Super Tuesday have varied from year to year because each state selects its election day separately.
Tuesday is the traditional day for elections in the United States. The phrase Super Tuesday[1] has been used to refer to presidential primary elections since at least 1976.[2] It is an unofficial term used by journalists and political pundits."...
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ARTICLE ABOUT SUPER TUESDAY RESULTS (DEMOCRATS) MARCH 3, 2020
From https://www.huffpost.com/entry/super-tuesday-joe-biden-2020-election-democratic-primary_n_5e5f3103c5b6732f50ea11eb
By Igor Bobic, 03/04/2020
"WASHINGTON ― Former Vice President Joe Biden barely campaigned in Super Tuesday states. He was outspent by tens of millions of dollars and had little to no staff on the ground to reach voters with his message about “restoring the soul of America.”
It didn’t matter. Biden romped to victory across the country on Tuesday, a stunning result for a campaign that looked terminal just a few weeks ago after disappointing finishes in Iowa and New Hampshire.
Buoyed by his blowout victory in South Carolina over the weekend and a slew of Democratic Party endorsements that followed, Biden carried the Southern states of Texas, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Oklahoma and Alabama. He won in Massachusetts, the home state of Sen. Elizabeth Warren, where he didn’t campaign at all. And he won in Minnesota, a state carried by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in 2016, where he also made no appearances.
It’s an incredibly rapid change of fortune that few saw coming last week"...
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Biden also won the Democratic Primary in Maine.
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SHOWCASE ARTICLE EXCERPT
From https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/4/1924191/--God-don-t-like-ugly-is-what-my-grandma-used-to-say#comment_76509167 "'God don't like ugly' is what my grandma used to say" by Denise Oliver Velez (2020/03/04) 07:25
Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)
"Before I talk about the ugly, I want to offer my congratulations to Joe Biden and his team for a crushing series of Super Tuesday victories. I have to admit I'm not surprised.
I actually want the bulk of my congrats to go to the black voters of South Carolina. They illustrated what has been completely wrong with the opinions of pundits prognosticators and pollsters. I’ll add in my thanks to the many other black folks—in state after state who did what they knew had to be done.
[tweet] Errin Haines
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@emarvelous
In a span of 72 hours, black voters are clearing the field and clarifying this race in a way that the first two contests simply did not and could not.
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8:28 PM - Mar 3, 2020
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Some people on Twitter, including people who weirdly think of themselves as part of Bernie Sanders’s coalition, chalked up Biden’s win to “low information voters” in South Carolina. The argument would be offensive if it weren’t also so dumb. Older black voters in South Carolina have a lifetime of education and experience dealing with the most persistent threat to their safety and rights in this country: white people.
My read of the South Carolina vote is that black people know exactly what they’re doing, and why. Joe Biden is the indictment older black folks have issued against white America. His support is buttressed by chunks of the black community who have determined that most white people are selfish and cannot be trusted to do the right thing. They believe if you make white people choose between their money and their morality—between candidates like Sanders or Elizabeth Warren (who somehow finished fifth in South Carolina, behind Pete Buttigieg) and candidates like Biden and Michael Bloomberg—they will choose their money every time and twice on Election Day.
The New York Times interviewed a 39-year-old African American voter in South Carolina. I found his analysis instructive. He told the Times: “Black voters know white voters better than white voters know themselves.… So yeah, we’ll back Biden, because we know who white America will vote for in the general election in a way they may not tell a pollster or the media.”
I say “God don’t like ugly” because we hear what you say, we see what you do, and we don’t need to filter that information through the brain cells of TV pundits.
Alot of what we hear is very, very, ugly. We hear the surrogates.
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Eugene Scott
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@Eugene_Scott
Michael Moore says that people of color, women and young people are going to decide the next election in the same breath that he says South Carolina isn’t representative of the United States.
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I remember warning people here that holding events at HBCUs and in Black churches, filled with white supporters was not a good look for Warren and Sanders. A huge rally in front of black housing projects, with almost all white attendees was not a good look for Sanders.
Dissing, and booing John Lewis—we filed that away, with anger.
Endless attacking of Obama—major ugly.
Those nasty attacks on the Congressional Black Caucus, from your candidates’ surrogates and supporters get passed on to mom and auntie who don’t do twitter. Labeling the hard decades long fight to get the vote and get some of our folks elected, to then be dubbed “Establishment” and dismissed as “corporate whores”—y’all so-called “progressives” have built up a deep well of dislike.
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We watch TV too. We see the “acceptable” black people selected to be pundits to interpret our behavior to white folks. We often laugh about the crap they sell you. Almost all of them spent their time helping torpedo Kamala Harris. Duly noted, even if we weren’t voting for her.
Van Jones does not speak for black people. Nina Turner does not speak for black people. Joy Reid does not speak for black people. Cornel West does not speak for black people. Shaun King got disinvited to the BBQ a few years ago.*
As hard as this may be for you to accept, Jim Clyburn does not have some magical hoodoo power and control over black peoples votes that sent us like zombies to vote for Biden.
See Virginia. See North Carolina. See Tennessee. See Alabama.
I am listening to the TV while I type. “Shocking” they are saying. “What a turnaround” for Biden. “The Biden comeback.”
What frigging turnaround, what comeback? The contest hadn’t even been started yet. The first real primary was SC."...
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Read the Addendum below for the meaning of being invited or disinvited to the BBQ means in African American Vernacular English.
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ADDENDUM- Explanation for being invited to the cookout [BBQ] or being disinvited to the cookout [BBQ]
From https://www.huffpost.com/entry/invitations-to-the-cookout-have-now-been-rescinded_b_59e644e4e4b0e60c4aa365ad Invitations To The Cookout Have Now Been Rescinded
Our criteria for entry have just become more strict.
Isis Miller, 10/17/2017
"The cookout is a long-standing tradition in the African American community dating back to God knows when. It’s a non-holiday specific, (although they do often coincide with such holidays as Labor Day and MLK Day), where Black families and friends gather for barbecue, spades games with trash-talking drunk uncles, aunty rivalries over who made the best dish, Luther Vandross blasting on the radio, and carefree Blackness at its peak. It’s the safety of belonging. It’s where you can let your guard down and simply be without having to swat at the incessant stings of microaggressions. It’s the place where no code switching is necessary because it’s just you and your tribe. It is being home in your skin with your kin.
But on occasion you will find that there is a white person at these gatherings. It is assumed that said white person is “down,” the precursor to what we now call being “woke.” They have earned their invitation usually by having grown up with the family, dated someone in the family, or simply having been around long enough to have been properly vetted. They know the etiquette and the rules. They don’t say the n-word, even when its part of the song. They don’t show up with some strange casserole. They bring a liquor of some sort (Hennessy being the obvious choice). And they certainly don’t invite other white people. And if anything were to go down they know it would be their duty to speak to the police, using their privilege for the good of those who lack it. They are simply happy to be there and we are happy to include them on the fun and maybe even send them home with a plate. These recipients of the illustrious cookout invite were the original allies.
These cookouts have, in popular culture, become synonymous with our lives, our social justice movements, our sacred spaces, our places of respect. So when a white person puts aside prejudice, stands up against racism, and uses their whiteness for good, someone on Twitter will announce that they are “invited to the cookout.” They can sit with us. They can join the spades game (as long as they don’t renege). They can electric slide their way into the inner circle of Blackness, status pending. "...
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That article whose sub-title is "Our criteria for entry have just become more strict" continues with information about a White owned t-shirt company named SwirlBae which is marketing an "invited to the cookout" t-shirt and hats. The ad for that shirt says that people should "celebrate the allies, partners, homies and swirly-plus ones in your life with a gift from the newest line of inclusive tees and hoodies from SwirlBae". That article continues saying:
"The theoretical (and very much literal) cookouts we’ve been hosting for generations, our sacred sites of unadulterated, live-out-loud Blackness are being threatened by the forces of gentrification. We are about to become a minority at our own events. Because just like every slogan, trend, movement and hashtag we create, it is then coopted, commodified, and watered down until it is unrecognizable or unredeemable. Because it is never enough for white people to simply be happy as a spectator. They must own, take up space, profit from Black culture, Black creativity, Black genius. And even when they serve up poor and borderline insulting imitations of us, they are given the credit."...
Denise Oliver Velez's Daily Kos article indicated that "Shaun King got disinvited to the BBQ a few years ago." Shaun King is a Black activist/journalist). Writing that a Black person is disinvited to the BBQ (cookout) means that whoever is writing that believes that person has done something or has taken some position or positions that is (in their opinion) against the best interests of other Black people.
For more information on this subject, click https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/invited-to-the-cookout for the 2019 "Know Your Meme": Invited to the Cookout" article.
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