Rick Scott to name Jacksonville-area lawmaker as running mate

[Brother Tony]

A BLACK SISTER BORN IN TRINIDAD! 

The Associated Press
 
8:08 a.m. EDT, September 2, 2010
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JACKSONVILLE —
Republican nominee for governor Rick Scott is set to name State Rep. Jennifer Carroll as his running mate.

Scott's campaign said he would announce his choice for lieutenant governor Thursday in Jacksonville. Events in Orlando and the Tampa area will follow.

Carroll confirmed in an e-mail to The Associated Press early Thursday that she is Scott's choice.

The 51-year-old Carroll served in the U.S. Navy for 20 years and was elected to the Florida Legislature in 2003.

She would become the state's first black woman to be a candidate for lieutenant governor.

Scott beat Bill McCollum for the GOP nomination in the Aug. 24 primary. He'll face Democrat Alex Sink in the general election Nov. 2.

[Brother Tony]

LET THE FIREWORKS BEGIN 

[Blackcaesar2k5]

Rick Scott is using same playbook that Maryland Republican Governor Bob Echlich did back in 02... However, Carroll isn't all that well known in the sunshine state..

[soflorattler]

Alex, being the lil' ol' country girl that she is, has just won the office of governor...

[y04185]

Alex, being the lil' ol' country girl that she is, has just won the office of governor...

explain.

[soflorattler]

Alex, being the lil' ol' country girl that she is, has just won the office of governor...

explain.

My opinion:

Bluedog Democrats, which are mainly located from Central Florida north to the Ga. and Ala. border ain' voting for an African American anything. Just ask Daryl Jones, who ran in the 2002 Democratic gubernatorial primary, and who ran on the ticket with Jim Davis in 2006 against Bush.

Alex Sink is a southern girl, born and bred, is a moderate Democrat who is a fiscal whiz. A few years back I met Alex and talked to her during a FAMU fundraiser in Tallahassee, and she is the real deal. Very smart, yet completely comfortable (funny with that country accent) and down to earth in the company of African Americans. She taught in Africa for a time.

The lady from Jacksonville is of Caribbean descent. Most AAs here feel that Caribbean Blacks do not identify with African Americans, and in some cases actually see them as calling themselves "superior" to U.S. born Blacks. This is why I don't think by having her on the GOP ticket will garner very much AA support, despite how smart she may be. And, given the current climate of the GOP, a lot of them just may stay home...

[y04185]

Thanks.

[Ken]

I don't think Carribean blacks detest AA blacks, but their attitude comes from the educational system they were trained in --the British Education System.  This system fosters the idea that not only are not equal to anyone else --you are better than anyone else. Adam Clayton Powell who lived on Bimini Island also made that observation.  So I guess you can say they Carribean blacks come to America without an inferiority complex.

[Meciber 202]

By education, should also include the impressions that get from TV, movies, news and other media ... Blacks in America are usually not depicted in the best light.

[soflorattler]

I don't think Carribean blacks detest AA blacks, but their attitude comes from the educational system they were trained in --the British Education System.  This system fosters the idea that not only are not equal to anyone else --you are better than anyone else. Adam Clayton Powell who lived on Bimini Island also made that observation.  So I guess you can say they Carribean blacks come to America without an inferiority complex.

Knowing people from the U.S. Virgin Islands, what would you say their reason for feeling superior is?

[Ken]

The Virgin Islands is a Commenwealth of the United States and don't use the British system of education.  I would consider the VI "Carribean Lite".  British customs and attitudes are not ingrained in the VI as other former British colonial countries.

[soflorattler]

The Virgin Islands is a Commenwealth of the United States and don't use the British system of education.  I would consider the VI "Carribean Lite".  British customs and attitudes are not ingrained in the VI as other former British colonial countries.

True. However in my interaction through the years with Black folks from  the U.S. V.I, I've found their attitude to be no different than those of the rest of the Caribbean...

[Ken]

Well not really.  I went to Howard which has a large international population  and Ifelt the students from the VI were a lot different from other Carribean students.  I don't think ANY carribean students detested students at Howard, but based on where they came from they were different--but you can say that about many people all over the globe. For example in Germany all Germans tend to stare at anyone who walks in a resturant or club---I don't think the Germans mean harm it is just their culture.

[Ken]

I was just thinking--the girls from Barbados say the same things about the girls from Trinidad--"They think they are better than us".

[Bison 4 Life]

My time at Howard was unique because it had lots of Caribbean students there. They played cricket on the "Yard" and have always marched in the homecoming parade. I called several of them friend.Over the years I was blessed to have traveled the world and befriend people from many places. That being said what Ken said is very true and my friends admitted as much. I remember a Jamaican breaking it down for me. Jamaicans in their history are taught that they fought the Brits and others. The Maroons, Octoroons etc. While Black Americans were described as "accepting" of their slave condition. Of course there are many known and unknown instances of American slaves rebelling. See how Nat Turner is portrayed as a "crazy person" by historians? To this day no film of his life has ever been attempted. Yet if you grew up in the Caribbean Toussaint L' Overture, and many others are part of the history. I think that plays apart. Lets not forget America exports stereotypes and none is worse than the lazy,criminal, oversexed American Negro male and his welfare , out of wedlock babies having female counterpart. I've had conversations with learned Carribean American's who internalized this and admonish their children to stay away from African Americans as potential mates.

  I've had Carribean and Africans tell me that Obama is not a "real" Black American. but this foreign construct who succeeded because of his formative years being free of Black American baggage. I'm quick to tell them that Black Americans laid the foundation for you to function here and eventuallythe majority will lump you in with us anyway.