Fun fact: The GOP elected its first Black Male U.S. Senator in 1870.
Another fun fact: The Demonrat party did not elect its first Black Male U.S. Senator until 2004, 134 years later. That Senator was Barack Hussein Obama, Jr.
Which party is behind the times with Black folk ?
Racism doesn’t cause poverty. It’s bad. It exists. But it does not cause poverty in this day and age. Poverty is bad and exists, but racism is not the cause of it. Jim Crow is dead and gone. Affirmative action has been around for decades. Red-lining is now illegal. There isn’t even a correlation between poverty and racism anymore. There are poor whites and poor blacks. The welfare state has a lot to answer for the poverty of both, including without limitation absent fathers, dependency, dysfunctional mothers, and also failed schools. But enough already with this antiquated paradigm.