{"id":1345,"date":"2011-09-30T17:05:23","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T21:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jazztheologian\/?p=1345"},"modified":"2011-09-30T17:05:23","modified_gmt":"2011-09-30T21:05:23","slug":"why-do-african-americans-vote-for-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2011\/09\/why-do-african-americans-vote-for-democrats.html","title":{"rendered":"Why Do African-Americans Vote for Democrats?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lisa Sharon-Harper has started quite a discussion over at Sojo.net with her article: A History Lesson for Herman Cain.<\/p>\n<p>Every wonder why the majority of African-Americans are Democrats? \u00a0Why do African-Americans vote for Dems., even though President Lincoln was a Republican AND most African-Americans are socially conservative?<\/p>\n<p>This is a key area for understanding in black\/white relationships especially among Christians. \u00a0Lisa Sharon-Harper gives an historical perspective that is worth considering as we seek to build reconciling relationships.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.sojo.net\/2011\/09\/30\/a-history-lesson-for-herman-cain\/\" target=\"_blank\">You can read her article here<\/a><\/p>\n<h6><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lisa Sharon-Harper has started quite a discussion over at Sojo.net with her article: A History Lesson for Herman Cain. Every wonder why the majority of African-Americans are Democrats? \u00a0Why do African-Americans vote for Dems., even though President Lincoln was a Republican AND most African-Americans are socially conservative? 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Author of Finding the Groove: Composing a Jazz-Shaped Faith (Zondervan) and the upcoming, Strange Fruit: The Cross as a Way of Life (2011). Founder of Project 127, a ministry dedicated to seeing the day when there are no children waiting for homes in Colorado's foster care system. Robert deeply desires to see the body of Christ mobilized to serve the least of these. The poor, the down and out, the disenfranchised and disabled, those deemed unimportant and the unborn. He believes that God loves all people yet he has a special heart for the poor and the poor in spirit, the miserable and the marginalized. A Contributing Editor for Leadership Journal and Urbanfaith.com. He acquired a B.A. in Bibilcal Studies from Colorado Christian University and a Master of Arts in World Christianity (Missiology) from Denver Seminary. Robert is married to the love of his life, Barbara, and they have six energetic children (3 boys &amp; 3 girls--one bio, five adopted--two from Ethiopia). 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