"African-Americans up until the 1950s were Republicans. ... We switched that based on many of the things that Republicans were doing," Leggett said. "I agree with the sentiment that the book is outrageous, and it makes assumptions that we can't think, we aren't intellectual and we follow the party blindly."
And in the past half-century, the Democrats have NOT betrayed that trust placed in them, by Americans of African descent, over and over again? By the Democrats' own stereotyping, by promises made and never kept, by destroying the very structure of whole families and neighborhoods?
"it makes assumptions that we can't think"
Why doesn't Leggett, former head of the State Democratic Party, follow this principle and allow blacks to form their own views.