Indiana's Republican Secretary of State, Todd Rokita, who recently announced he will be pursuing an indictment against ACORN, had this to say about black voters last year:
During a speech Thursday at a Republican event, Todd Rokita said 90 percent of blacks vote for Democrats.
"How can that be?" Rokita said. "Ninety to ten. Who's the master and who's the slave in that relationship? How can that be
healthy?"
Rokita seems to have answered his own question: black people don't vote Republican because Republicans are given to reductive and dehumanizing racial commentary about black folks. But it's easy to see how someone who would make a statement like this would be hostile towards a mostly African-American activist group that does the work of registering voters in low-income communities.
--A. Serwer
