black voters
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5 Things Black Voters Should Demand From the Democratic Party
The Democratic Party is a white party. According to Pew research, 59 percent of registered voters who identify as Democrats are white. Only 4 of the state Chairs party chairs are black. It hasn’t elected a black governor in a decade. Only 2 of its 49 Senators are black. Just 45 of the 193 Democratic…
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Black People Aren’t Stupid: The False Notion That Kanye and Kim Are Helping Trump Win Black Voters
Although I am rarely amazed by racism, privilege or America in general, when it comes to the audacity of whiteness, I am sometimes astounded at white people’s perception of black people. I often marvel at the Caucasian notion of our inherent simplemindedness; the idea that dangling any dancing black puppet in front of the Negro…
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Trump Claims African Americans Have Chosen Democrats for 100 Years—Except His Math Is Way Off
During a campaign stop WWE match political rally in Nashville, Tenn., on Tuesday night, President Donald Trump claimed that African-American voters have been choosing Democrats almost exclusively for over a century. “African Americans vote for Democrats, for the most part. Vast majority. They’ve been doing it for over a hundred years,” he told fans at…
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Black Women in Alabama Saved Themselves Last Night
If you’ve kept up with how black women roll in American politics, what happened in Alabama last night should hardly surprise you. Per usual, black women showed up and showed out at the ballot box, helping Doug Jones win Jeff Sessions’ vacated Senate seat in what was supposed to be a safe victory for Republican…
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A Racist Flyer Might Cost Doug Jones the Election Because the Entire Democratic Party Is Trash
The above photo is not a stock photo or an image created by The Root’s art department. It is an actual flyer circulating around from the Doug Jones for Senate Committee in his run against Elmer Fudd wannabe and schoolgirl aficionado Roy Moore for Alabama’s U.S. Senate seat, and it has upset black voters across…
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Of Course Roy Moore Is Mad About Felon Voters. Suppressing Black Votes Was a Function of Alabama’s Constitution
The enfranchisement of thousands of felons in Alabama could swing the state’s crucial Senate election Dec. 12 in favor of Democrat Doug Jones—and accused sexual assaulter of underage girls, and Republican Senate nominee, Roy Moore does not like this turn of events. On Wednesday, Moore tweeted: Unsurprisingly, his tweet expresses a negative perspective toward voter…
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Someone Tell the Democrats to Stop Acting Like the Political Equivalent of Unseasoned Chicken
Leave it to the donkey party to act an ass and see an opportunity dangled before it and stupidly squander time debating whether or not an obvious winning strategy is worth pursuing. Politico reports that Democrats are torn over how to handle what happened in Charlottesville, Va., the debate over Confederate monuments in general and…
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As Democrats Keep Chasing Trump Voter Waterfalls, Will They Ever Listen to Their Actual Base: Black People?
Will Democrats ever actually listen to black people in terms of strategy and vote targeting? Can a political party toss over $1 billion into the trash two election cycles in a row? Does it really take a genius to figure out that if a group votes for you 90 percent of the time, you should…
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‘That White Boy ’Bout to Lose’: The Inescapable Racial Politics of the Ga. 6th Special Election
I was on my way to the Jon Ossoff watch party at a fancy Westin in North Atlanta when I got a call from a good colleague of mine. Somewhere between a black millennial and Gen Xer, he was someone who’d worked on campaigns in Georgia and had a pretty good feel for what was…
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A Black Political Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Trump Galaxy
Nowhere does the question “What’s the next step?” carry more significance than in black America. Safe to say that most black voters feel like Tom Cruise in Edge of Tomorrow, repeatedly slain by aliens on a violent beachhead one day and repeatedly waking up the next in a dopey haze of “Did that just happen?”…