Black voters must challenge Democrats

[portlander23]

Black voters must challenge Democrats

Since the confrontation at the annual Netroots conference, where he and others on the Democratic dais were forced to listen to members of Black Lives Matter, Sanders has scurried to figure out what he should be doing to reach out to black voters. He hired Symone Sanders to serve as his national press secretary. Symone, young and black, is the national youth chair of the Coalition on Juvenile Justice and a purported activist in #BlackLivesMatter.

A recent Gallup polls shows Sanders’ favorability rate among African Americans at 23 percent compared to Hillary Clinton’s 80 percent. Why? Are we allowing Hillary to ride the wave of her president-husband? President Bill Clinton severely altered black lives with his crippling welfare and criminal justice reforms that will impact black families for generations.

Not every black person sees the electoral area as a viable place to spend our time and efforts. This is especially true of some young people in #BLM. For those of us who know that this is the place where decisions are made about our standard of living and our future, we must be more sophisticated about our participation in electoral politics.

[CBGLuthier]

1. Democrats have taken the black vote for granted for too long

Once again the flaws of the two party system. Only a really stupid black person (or person of any color for that matter) could vote for republicans and the democrats know this. They make the same stupid assumption about the latino vote.

[HooptieWagon]

2. I understand the AA community's anger and frustration,...

and their feeling that their votes are taken for granted. However, I feel their anger at the left wing of the Dem Party is misplaced. The liberal wing of the party hasn't been in control since 1988 or so. The corporatist wing of the party, first DLC, now 'New Democrats' or Third Way, has controlled the party since then.
The left wing of the party feels every bit as angry, frustrated, and taken for granted by the Democratic Party as the AA community. However, we have directed that anger towards the source. That's why Sanders is leading a popular 'revolution' against the corporatists backing Clinton.

[SwampG8r]

3. The black vote is more conservative

Than many Democrats want to admit.
So they like Hillary.
Given her race baiting in 2007 and her avid outspoken support for her husbands policies which have hurt so many poc for 23 years I guess it's possible that a " well we already know what she is " mentality could.exist.