Back then, reparations wasn't being used as a club the way black people have learned to wield it now.
If you aint talking reparations you aint getting our vote. This topic will sway elections. It didn't have that power even last election cycle.
Once again you are being extremely naive. The American political process is a dog and pony show. Its not true representation. Never has been. Both political parties are controlled by the same rich crakkkas that run everything in this country. They give money to politicians on both sides and tell them what to do. Once again I really hope ya'll are some young kids like I was in 2008 when Obama first ran and I was on that Hope and Change shyt. After a few elections you realize all elections are is the ILLUSION OF CHOICE. The same shyt happens regardless of which party is in office. And as voters we really have no true choice.
With that said, lets say elections were real and there was a real choice. Even then black folks don't constitute a majority of the electorate. The only way a pro-reparations candidate would get elected in a general election is if the country as a whole approved of it. Maybe you don't know white people that well but from my experience nothing I've seen from the average white person leads me to believe they will ever support a pro-reparations candidate. Hell white people don't even believe racism is real or that police brutality exists. How on earth do you think they would ever support giving up part of their own wealth to uplift black people? If the democratic nominee says they are for reparations that nominee will lose. Even if he wins, white folks would vote anti-reparations candidates into the congress blocking that shyt from ever passing.
You gotta realize we all we got. And we ain't never gonna get justice in the American political system. That's why I don't vote or advocate any black person vote. Forget finding a candidate that shares our interests. The political process itself is a sham. Go and try to make change yourself rather than trying to vote in change. You'll have a better chance.