HISTORY-MAKING: Blacks out voted Whites in 2012 Presidential Election
buzzz worthy. . . Washington, DC - Melanie L. Campbell , president and CEO of The National Coalition on Black Civic Participation ( The National Coalition ) and convener of Black Women's Roundtable issued the following statement in response to a U. S. Census Bureau report released yesterday finding that a bout two in three eligible blacks (66.2 percent) voted in the 2012 presidential election, higher than the 64.1 percent of non-Hispanic whites who did so. This marks the first time that blacks have voted at a higher rate than whites since the Census Bureau started publishing statistics on voting. Campbell said, "Let me first say it's a great day in America for Black People - especially Black women. It is extremely gratifying to see Census data that reinforces what we already knew: despite rigorous systematic efforts to suppress our vote, Blacks voted at higher rates than whites in 2012. Black women outdistanced every demogra...