They are scared to death of loosing black voters to president Trump.
Losing
It is beyond that; they ALREADY lost enough to Trump to cost them the upper Midwest. This is to reverse that trend - the one where blacks wake up and realize they’ve been conned for decades by white “liberals” who basically kept them enslaved in ghettoes. White liberals today still oppose the idea of educating blacks; that is why they are on opposite sides of the education reform debate.