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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]Civic Justice
(870 posts)44. If any Administration Put Black Concerns to the Top of Priority....
If any Administration Put Black Concerns to the Top of Priority.... there would be so much backlash, not just from Republicans, but from Working Class and Poor Democrats whites as well. That is the Real Fact!!!
As Black People- We've always said:
I Don't Want Nobody To Give Me Nothing, Just Open the Doors (of Equality, Honestly and Fairly) I'll Get It Myself.
Pieces like this OP, want to stir up something, that neither Republican nor Democrats will push to the top of their agenda. People pushed that same stuff when Obama was President, and IF Obama had tried to push Black Concerns to the Top, the Tea Party would have gone even more ballistic than they did at just seeing a black man as President. So, Obama's aim and goal, was as he said "LET'S REBUILD FROM THE BOTTOM UP, AND MAKE A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD FOR ALL AMERICAN'S... Even when he said that, some of the Right leaning Democrats did not get on the wagon or become cheer leaders for it, and Republican went into full on war mode to attack anything and everything President Obama would propose, and OUR system, even let the Republican Block his right to fill the Supreme Court Position.
So, let's not get into spinning the game of "trying to play black people as a political pawn".... Black people support the Democratic Party, because if one notes, as the Democratic Conventions IT IS FILLED WITH DIVERSITY, where as the Republican Conventions is 99.8% white people.
People have the wrong concept about black people... We are more like what James Brown said, and he said it decades ago... I don't want nobody to give me, Just Open the Doors (of Equality Honestly and Fairly) I'll get it myself.
Black people took care of white people for Centuries, now if people get out of the way and stop the block and tackle, shuffle and playing shell games, talking loud and saying nothing, and Open Up the Door, we will get things for ourselves.
Look at the long hidden history of Stolen Contribution derived by forced Slave Labor to American white society, and look at Black Inventions and Black innovations that have been transformative in America .... there's a long history of capability and abilities that represent much more than credit is given.
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When Black Voters Exited Left: What African Americans lost by aligning with the Democratic Party [View all]
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