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In reply to the discussion: When Black Voters Exited Left: What African Americans lost by aligning with the Democratic Party [View all]Demsrule86
(68,488 posts)19. One has to wonder why so much effort to hit Democrats in an election year.
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WhiskeyGrinder
Mar 2018
OP
No, it's a hit piece with smidge of something added here & there to make the point of the article
Wwcd
Mar 2018
#7
Wake up. This is a two-year-old article, clearly designed to divide, being posted here in an...
brush
Mar 2018
#92
Belmont may very well have an agenda, but writing exclusively about race isn't proof of it
EffieBlack
Mar 2018
#81
Up until the Johnson administration, the segregationist Southern Democrats held power in the South
FarCenter
Mar 2018
#60
All of that has been well known for years. The dixiecrats left after major civil right legislation..
brush
Mar 2018
#93
Far more (and worse) than merely "policy failures". This is yet another bashing of Democrats.
George II
Mar 2018
#87
Correct, the bottom line. Title & tone of the article is clearly, hit piece to divide.
appalachiablue
Mar 2018
#17
Really? I would unrec if I could...but then winning elections is my number one priority.
Demsrule86
Mar 2018
#23
When someone talks about the plight of a minority but is not themselves that minority,
Eliot Rosewater
Mar 2018
#121
Garbage. Who else is going to speak for them? Racist shithead Republicans? Bullshit
blake2012
Mar 2018
#14
Sure hit Democrats in an election year...that worked out so well the year this article first came tw
Demsrule86
Mar 2018
#21
Nah...a 16 style hit piece to discourage Democrats from voting was needed... After all 16 was so
Demsrule86
Mar 2018
#22
This 2 year old article was designed to elect Trump by dividing us on the left
IronLionZion
Mar 2018
#24
No. I just wanna make it clear there's nothing more urgent or important than turning the Congress
underthematrix
Mar 2018
#38
My response was to the OP. A two-year-old article on division in an election year?
brush
Mar 2018
#41
hahahaha...none of those important issues can be accomplished without turning the Congress Blue.
Demsrule86
Mar 2018
#55
Speaking "REALITY" because this OP post is a divisive intending hit piece
Civic Justice
Mar 2018
#34
It's a complicated topic but it's an important one. I'm not sure why it always gets so much
WhiskeyGrinder
Mar 2018
#37
Not sure what you think I'm implying, but I'll say what I mean straight out.
WhiskeyGrinder
Mar 2018
#40
"There is nothing preventing POC from running and steering the democrats any way they want."
WhiskeyGrinder
Mar 2018
#63
I think part has to do with the accepted but confused understanding of white supremacy
loyalsister
Mar 2018
#47
"THEY'VE" played for the "Back door to Slavery" embedded in the 13th Amendment.
Civic Justice
Mar 2018
#79
Is that the best question that can be asked when Democrats hear how the party is perceived by
WhiskeyGrinder
Mar 2018
#61
Was Barack Obama white? NO. What Party stalled every good thing he tried to do to lift people of
Wwcd
Mar 2018
#67
"Republicans have done everything possible to stop the forward push for equality & human rights."
WhiskeyGrinder
Mar 2018
#72
What do you gain by insisting that white racism and privilege, *upon which this nation is built,*
WhiskeyGrinder
Mar 2018
#76
Blacks switched from the GOP to the Democratic party in 1936 and voted 93% for Wallace in his last
braddy
Mar 2018
#73
What did this accomplish. A hit job on Democrats and you say "it's all good".
George II
Mar 2018
#84