Black Female Voters Taken For Granted

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24. Facts

As a Black male, I not only agree that the party takes Black people for granted but Black women in particular and it is sad. This is a huge blind spot for the DU community and in the party in general that needs to be addressed. For as loyal as Black women have been to the party there has never been specific messaging and policies targeting them to earn their vote. Black women and to a slightly lesser extent Black men are expected to continuously vote to prevent harm and to keep the status quo because consultants fear that programs specifically targeting them will make others not vote. This is not a tenable solution and is a big reason why we are seeing softening in the Black male vote and is also why other minorities aren’t trying to stick with one party out of fear of being taken advantage of.

Now to speak on this forum. I gather most of the people that post here are not POC or Black because after every election loss there are the large threads asking about why Black people didn’t show up in Obama levels because don’t they know what Republican policies will do to them. Really condescending and insulting stuff when you can’t expect to get that level of support without specific policies while your leaders run and court the mythical rural voter at your expense. This has always been Bernie’s blind spot when he talks about the party leaving working class voters behind when the anchor of the party is working class Black voters.