(July 8, 2018 at 12:30 am)Minimalist Wrote: And they have a reason to support the republicunts? Be serious. That would be like the slaves thanking the auctioneer!When Pelosi and Schumer attacked Maxine and the people wrote the letter to them I started looking for background info. IMO the Repubs are missing a golden opportunity to peel off a large voting block but they are like the Confederates who didn't want to recruit blacks into the army because they didn't want to owe the blacks if they won the war. So they didn't want to win with their help.
It's obvious from the articles that blacks, especially black some, are getting fed-up with the Dems' BS and that in some cases they can win without the Dem organization. That's going to spell a lot of trouble for creeps like Pelosi and Schumer. So even if they don't join the whacko Repubs they could just sit it out. They haven't been getting anything anyway. Hillary sure wasn't going to give them any meat.
Black Women Leaving the Democratic Party, Cracking the Base
"Black women have been treated as nothing more than a mistress or “side chick” by the Democratic Party. Democrat leaders aggressively — and publicly — court other demographics such as young people and educated white women, but exert little effort to secure black female voters. They have had no reason to — until now.
Black women form the most reliable base of support for the Democratic Party. Yet, now they are awakening to the realization that they are nothing more than a fallback plan for Democrats."
https://www.newsmax.com/patriceleeonwuka...id/816197/
More Black Women Are Realizing That the Democratic Party Is Full of Shit, New Poll Finds
"The Democratic Party has experienced an 11 percent drop in support from black women, while “the percentage of black women who said neither party represents them jumped from 13 percent in 2016 to 21 percent in 2017,” according to the 2017 Power of the Sister Vote poll, conducted by the Black Women’s Roundtable, an intergenerational public policy network, in partnership with Essence magazine."
https://www.theroot.com/more-black-women...1818650231
Why Aren’t Top Democrats Acknowledging the Black Women Running for Office?
Some candidates winning their primaries are frustrated that they still haven’t heard from party leadership.
"Jeannine Lee Lake decided to run for Congress after Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election because she wanted to show her teenage daughter that she was willing to take a stand against Trump’s pejorative comments about women and minorities. Lake, a 48-year-old black woman, said she ran for her daughter, and for her nieces and nephews.
“This president has disregarded us and placed us in a category that is beneath and inferior,” she told The Atlantic in an interview. Lake is part of a movement of women candidates and people of color running for political office for the very first time, and on May 8, she beat five other Democrats in her primary bid for Indiana’s 6th congressional district. But she noticed something strange: Lake won without ever hearing from party leadership. She’s not alone.
Democratic leaders have repeatedly declared that African American women are “the backbone” of the party. But when some of those same women run and win their primary bids for Congress, they haven’t had so much as a phone call from establishment leaders. In interviews with The Atlantic, five black women candidates who won their primaries said they still haven’t heard from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the body that works to elect Democrats to the House. “It’s the height of hypocrisy,” Lake told me. “We bring millions of votes into these campaigns, and we’re gettin’ no love.”"
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...ce/562802/
