[driftless2]

"just tell the truth"

Good luck with that. Telling black Americans that they are responsible for their own problems would be like telling a person who is hitting himself in the head with a hammer to stop it only to be told by the person holding the hammer someone else is hitting them in the head. Namely nasty, white racists.

Six or seven thousand black males are gunned down every year by other black males but black Americans choose to focus on a few cases where black males are killed by police (almost all justified shootings) to show they are still victims of terrible racism.

In short, telling the truth does no good. They are resistant to facts and reality.

[ClearCase_guy]

Well, the experiment won't happen, but I do think the opposition party should pick a platform for black concerns -- family over out-of-wedlock, jobs over welfare, education over ghetto culture, self-responsibility over "blame YT" and the party should stick with it, and hammer it, for however many years it takes. Every racial news story should be addressed via "pushing the platform" with no deviation allowed under any circumstances.

The Democrats can invent new programs, throw money in all kinds of directions, and march with Al Sharpton in every city. At the end of the day, in 2034, are things better? Has anyone ever paid attention to that platform for black concerns? Want to maybe give it a try?

Honest, principled, consistent politics. Anything other than that is pandering, and no one panders better than the Democrats, so why try to compete?