Posted on 07/07/2017 11:13:33 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
For years, Black people have delivered our vote to Democrats. Many Democrats wouldn’t have won without our vote. Now some Black people, and other people of color, have become discouraged because no matter the votes we deliver, we are taken for granted. Once elected, many forget our efforts on their behalf.
Until President Barack Obama ran for office, I voted for Democrats, but I’d lost my enthusiasm for my Party. My enthusiasm returned full force in 2008 and 2012. By 2016, I still enthusiastically supported Secretary Hillary Clinton. I did so because she was a Democrat, but also because she was a woman–and, just as we had waited for the election of an African American, we women had waited too long to see a woman elected President. African American women worked so hard and had such high hopes, but so many of our White friends–especially White women–betrayed us and voted for Donald Trump! My enthusiasm was once again damaged.
Now, I see a Party leadership enslaved to misplaced loyalties. Rather than growing and rewarding that portion of the base that has given unwavering allegiance to party objectives, leaders debate the how-to’s of making white males happy and bringing white women, who rejected the Party en masse, back into the fold.
Despite the current discord in national politics, we need to be able to identify who we can confidently call “leader.” Whatever the party agenda, it must specifically address a realistic plan to improve our communities, put our people to work, fix our schools and streets, and put an end to the insane racist behavior trending throughout the nation. Democrats, your most loyal supporters are waiting for you to recognize what The Party would look like without us!
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This is the dead-end of identity politics. Without an underlying set of unifying principles and values, there are not enough “goodies” to keep everyone happy.
Faye is a very slow learner.
Just figuring this out, Einstein?
No, in their minds, you’re their useful idiots to be pandered to at election time and ignored the rest of the time. Time to lose the Stockholm Syndrome.
All your base.....
It is a problem that all liberals have. They will believe what they hear, and only what they hear, OVER AND OVER AND OVER again. Even if it does NOTHING for them. Their interest very seldom extends beyond SELF.
DEMOCRATS!
ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US!
You just keep voting and waiting Dr. Faye. The carrot is tied to the end of that stick. Keep reaching for it. Anyday now they will recognize you.
You bought my vote before, now give me more so I will vote for you again. Law of the hood I guess.
I'd like to see that myself, but I'm afraid Dr. Williams is going to need a bigger mirror for that.
Chicago; Baltimore...for examples...
Good luck, you have been used for years and years and thinking that the Kenyan born idiot was going to save you??? LOLOL...what did he do for you??? Your still living in slums, your on welfare, your kids are running wild, do they even know who their ‘daddies’ are? Yep, you got used again...
Fortunately for America, We Americans took over this past election, so with President Trump you will see some relief to your problem, but remember one man cannot do it all, you have to help yourself also...
We’ve already established what you are, now we’re just haggling over the price.
Welcome to the democrat/government plantation. When you trade your vote for socialism or otherwise submit to big government, you lose your freedom. You need to bone up on history. Read the bible. It’s the story of an oppressed, enslaved people fighting for freedom. All God’s children just want to be free!
What exactly do they want from the Democrats? Let the Democrat party crater, but don’t woo people of this mindset to the Republican party with the same kind of fake promises the Democrats make.
But, hey, they wouldn't want Guam to flip over or something else just as bad . . .
The dem base is 2 eyes and 1 brain Blind!
Even liberal black broadcaster Tavis Smiley has criticized Obama for this. As Smiley told HuffPost Live’s Alyona Minkovski, “Sadly — and it pains me to say this — over the last decade, black folk, in the era of Obama, have lost ground in every major economic category.”
The number of black food-stamp participants EXPLODED across that time frame from 7,393,000 to 11,699,000, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reports — up 58.2 percent.
Housing ownership is down and percentage in Poverty is up!
Looks like they Vote to maintain demselves as wards of the state based on the available statistics!!!
Your just fools thinking the Democrats like you..there using you...Fifty years and blacks for the most part are losing bad
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