Posted this in another thread but adding it for the sheep in here:
I am trying to WARN you tone-deaf motherfuckers! As the other guy said, Biden ain’t it! If you run a Dem candidate who lacks a comprehensive plan for Black America, and even worse has a documented history of associating with segregationists and pushing policies that have negative effects on Black communities, then the Dems will LOSE! Take your heads out of the sand, and out of your own asses, and read the article below:
The more fundamental problem was that representation wasn’t enough. It never is. Voters of color are sick of being used as props, and they tend to respond, regardless of race, to candidates who show up early and often, tailoring their campaigns to the community’s specific needs. This isn’t a secret: Black voters warned as much after the last presidential election. In a November 2016 interview with the New York Times, some black voters from Wisconsin, perhaps the key swing state, said they decided to stay home on Election Day because both Clinton and Trump struck them as all talk and no action. Trump wound up winning the state by 23,000 votes after the black turnout rate dropped from 79 percent in 2012 to 47 percent in 2016, the lowest in the state’s recorded history.
“Milwaukee is tired,” said barber Cedric Fleming. “Both of them were terrible. They never do anything for us anyway.”
The question that Democrats are asking now, on the eve of the first all-white debate of the cycle, is why? Why did two high-profile black senators (Cory Booker and Kamala Harris) drop out before Iowa? Why didn’t Julián Castro, America’s most prominent Latino politician, ever crack 2 percent in...
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