Lemme sit this right here for the bothsiders to feast on
To me, this is part of the issue with the argument: I don't think any of the people who are disenchanted with the Democratic Party are saying that they don't reach out and, at the very least, show lip service in a way that Republicans don't.
I actually get where a lot of the discontent comes from, which is why (except for the obvious Trump boosters who just want to suck the dikk of a strong white daddy Republican type) I always try not to be too judgmental. If you look at a lot of groups over history, they've received some form of redress. The Native Americans got genocided, but at least they got land, legal rights to run gambling houses, and the ability to police their own territory. Japanese-Americans got reparations for internment. Reagan did amnesty in the '80s, which helped not only a lot of Mexican, Central American, and South American illegal migrants, but also a bunch of migrants from Eastern Europe and the Caribbean.
Gay folks got on the come up so quickly that it took only ten years for them to get from "gay marriage ban in the Constitution" to "legal marriage."
But what have we gotten? Not enough. Not enough for building this country both economically and artistically.
You take something like FDR's New Deal. That only passed because no one would vote for it until black folks were excluded from those programs at a high level. Or take the GI Bill. It sent a lot of WW2, Korean War, and Vietnam War vets to college and comfortable middle class lives, and virtually zero of them were black.
So I get it. I know the history here.
I don't think that saying that Dems are out here showing that they care (or, if you want to be uncharitable, putting up a front that they care) is going to sway anyone.
But as much as I agree that we need tangibles, people need to realize what country they're living in. We are outnumbered by people who fukking hate us. That means that Dems can't come out with too much policy that is obviously targeted to black folks. They need to present it in a way that everyone gets to partake, but it's something that really benefits black folks who have been left out of the economic engine of the country.
Take something like Obamacare. That cut the number of
black folks without health care significantly. But if it were pitched as "get black folks health care" by a black president, we never would have had it.
Which is not to lecture you like you don't know this, but this long-ass post is just to say that an incremental, go-slow mentality is both unsatisfying to have and also the reality of the country we live in.
But what we also really need is not just a seat at the table at the federal level. We need more black folks as mayors, governors, on school boards, etc., so that we can collectively challenge the policy in this country, and it's going to be another long fight that's unsatisfying while we have it, but that's probably how it's going to have to be unless we can convince white people to carve out part of the U.S. and give us our own country, which will never happen.
I always say that if there is a better way, I would abandon the Dems to follow it, but what is the better way other than what we've been doing, which is slowly infiltrating the party and trying to vote in a bloc to put people in power who will watch out for us and who are good enough politicians to frame a win for black folks as a win for everybody?
I been watching brehs give you and GOAT squad rebuttals for weeks with nothing but deflections and name calling. Even in this thread instead of addressing the video in the OP you on some "I stand upright, proudly with Dem squad!" Like I said even Craig was baffled at Kamala, it's ok to address the fact she was unprepared and doesn't prioritize black men.
her ENTIRE LIFE IS A POLITICAL PUBLICITY STUNT...
