No one expects any particular Democrat to defend our President from the vile disgusting and concerted rhetoric coming from his enemies on the right,but blacks must remember the likes of Hillary Clinton and probably most importantly Andrew Coumo.
Coumo New’s York Governor, gave a long meandering speech at the funeral for his late father Mario Coumo a former Governor whom some viewed as a liberal lion and a champion for those without money and power. As I listened to the speech, I thought to myself the
speech made one thing clear Andrew Coumo was no Mario Coumo.
Real leaders lead from the front , not hide behind and do what is politically expedient. Cuomo hid while Mayor deBlasio stood and took heat for his stance on Police abuse.
As the state’s Governor, Cuomo did not have to defend the state’s black citizens, God forbid, but he could have stood with deBlasio another white man who did the right thing.
Andrew Cuomo chose to remain silent.
Unfortunately though Cuomo benefited immensely from black votes in the last elections he could not muster up the balls or the character to stand with them in their moment of travail.
Though Cuomo won the last elections beating Republican rival Rob Astorino by 13 percentage points, the National review reported that Astorino collected 1.3 million votes — or 49 percent — compared to Cuomo’s 1.2 million, or 46 percent, in a low-turnout election. Three third-party candidates were also on the ballot. Cuomo’s 13-percentage-point win over Republican challenger Rob Astorino on Nov. 4 was fueled by a large margin of victory in New York City, where he took home 77 percent of the nearly 1 million ballots cast, according to the state Board of Election’s unofficial results.
He did not do well in white Democratic liberal strongholds ‚generally speaking Cuomo did best in the
ADs that are predominantly black.”
Democrats have taken the black vote for granted for decades. They probably will for decades more, unless blacks cease voting, or avail themselves to the realities they face. The fact is that Democrats know that blacks cannot run to the Republican party, so they do not have to earn the votes of their most loyal voters, neither do they have to stand with them.
So Cuomo did not feel the need to stand up for black people in New York City.
neither does he feel the need to repudiate the vile creature Rudolph Giuliani on his bottom feeding gutter attack on our President.
Chances are Andrew Cuomo is not willing to ruffle the feathers of another Italian, a republican who crossed party line and endorsed his father when he ran for a fourth term in 1994.
On the occasion of crossing party lines to endorse the elder Cuomo, Guiliani said. “George Pataki’s only essential characteristic is that he offers an alternative. “Strangely, however, after lengthy analysis and a lot of soul-searching, I’ve come to the conclusion that it is George Pataki who best personifies the status quo of New York politics — a candidate taking as few positions as possible, all of them as general as possible, taking no risks and being guided and scripted by others. He has simply not made the case that he is the agent of change.”
This is the very first time I concur with anything Giuliani has to say, only this time the very words
Giuliani used to described George Pataki as he battled Mario Cuomo, are now totally appropriate in describing Andrew Cuomo.
New York’s black voters should never forget the cowardice of Andrew Cuomo when they needed their Governor to stand with them.
They should never forget the cowardice of Andrew Cuomo when he refused to stand against the vile naked bigotry of his fellow Italian, Rudolph Giuliani in his incessant attacks against the Nation’s first black chief-executive.
But I will not hold my breath that this will happen, chances are many of the state’s black voters don’t even bother to hold Coumo accountable, or know they should.
Given the chance they will once again go into voting booths and vote for Andrew Cuomo again and again, and again.