The reason why "The Left" has very little traction with black people is because they are typically disingenuous and black folks see right through it. Here is a completely valid point about black wealth being impacted by the economic crisis and how neither party has helped but they chose to wrap it in an anti-Obama "please don't like him, he's no item" pretext. Exposes how little they actually care about black wealth and their sole desire to turn black folks against establishment democrats. Just like republicans, the only time The Left engages with black voters is to call them stupid...
So any pushback against an obvious con gets spun as "Obama cult worshippers and Democratic plantations and Hillary did the nae nae". Meanwhile they give every benefit of the doubt to the racist rust belt illiterates who vote for corporatist republicans literally religiously...mainly becuz the democratic establishment has disdain for them (and cuz they still see white guys with dirt on their faces as their core audience even tho most of the low wage laborers in this country are in service jobs and a large portion are black and latino women).
This isn't new at all either. Richard Wright wrote about leftists trying using black people as attack dogs since the 30's.
And I definitely identify more with the Jacobin types than I do with the Salon.com types, I voted for Bernie in the primary.. but these types of attacks come off as wack to me. If you want to engage with black people then engage. But coming out against Obama or Beyonce or whoever else just exposes that it isn't about helping black people. And if you knew or cared anything about black people you know that they arent going to respond to this type of shyt....
