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In reply to the discussion: Facing intense internal pressure, DNC releases postelection autopsy that criticizes Kamala Harris [View all]bigtree
(94,690 posts)...the complaints are really that some people didn't get a chance to pick it apart and throw it in the party's face.
They should be made to explain how any of that gets us to a Democratic majority.
What you posted is the capitulation that I'm talking about which subjugates the representation of blacks, like me, to a strategy they assume will create a majority Democratic district.
But it will still be made up of people who don't resemble the black communities they expect to make up some of that vote, and subsequently, as always, the needs of concerns of those communities are ultimately shortchanged or underrepresented.
Moreover, it's a hell of a backward way to show support for black Americans, for the party insisting they can find a way around their actual presence and representation in Congress.
At some point, in some way the party is going to be made to recognize that representation isn't a mere beneficence to black Americans, but a national imperative. This timidity and avoidance is only going to be taken advantage of by an opposition which has been stringing Democrats along for decades who can't find the courage to stand up and defend black Americans like they'd defend their own preogatives.