>>I think the answer, however, might be that blacks are more Democrats than they are Black<<
After spending my entire life thinking and hoping that we are past the politics of race (including my niece and nephew who are both 1/2 black but associate with only their black “side”) it was Colin Powell who grabbed me by the ears and made it clear: Blacks (and those who create an association therein) need to cling to their skin color as a marker of their position in the world.
The sad part is that Colin Powell in his books stated he used race as an accelerator to climb the rungs of success. But when he needed to make a decision for POTUS, he fell back to his own racial stereotypes.
When Colin Powell declared his support for barry the zero, who represents the antithesis of everything Powell said he stood for, I sadly knew that skin color defines most Persons of Color. And they will abandon their knowledge, principles and character in service to their skin color.
How naive I was. How hopeful. How wrong.
You’re right, of course....and it chaps my hide when these same blacks tout their deity, Martin Luther King, whose hallmark was the concept that a man should be judged by his character rather than the color of his skin.
Their hypocrisy, not to mention their mindless pettiness, knows no bounds.