Survey: Fewer black women say that the Democratic Party 'best represents' their interests

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93. Certainly there is a concerted effort

to ensure the party does not represent African American women, or anyone who isn't straight, white and male. Of course they don't see it that way. They assume that the concerns of anyone but themselves are "divisive," "wedge issues," and "identity politics," while there demands are "for everyone." But the fact is they've been told repeatedly that their concerns are not universal, and the fact they continue unaffected by any of those critiques suggest the exclusion is deliberate. It's the sort of argument the GOP made just a few years ago, but now it's championed under the pretext of "progressivism," despite its overt calls to revert--to regress--to the mid-20th century. If only we were the party of "FDR," a man born into the aristocracy, who worked as a Wall Street financier, and drew the majority of his campaign funding from Wall Street, then the Democratic party could be great again. Pointing out that the Democratic Party of the New Deal was also the party of the Klan and Jim Crow, and that FDR refused to take action against lynchings out of fear of offending White Southerners, has no impact on the evocation of that past as ideal. Given all that, it seems to me perfectly logical that black women would worry that they are being even further marginalized.