Aunt Gloria & Mama Capehart reflect what I'm hearing everywhere from older black women voters: “The way the system is set up now, there is so much racism that it’s going to have to be an old white person to go after an old white person" so maybe Bloomberg. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
The black vote has been the largest swing vote in terms of who gets the Democratic nomination in non-incumbent races since 1992. Older and younger AA voters swung hard from HRC to Obama in 2008 & most black voters stayed w/ Clinton in the 2016 primaries w/ less young turnout.
But now the AA vote is splitting even more starkly along generational lines, w/ younger AAs, whose loss of trust is in capitalism, leaning towards Sanders and older black voters, who post-Obama & given Trump, don't trust white voters, leaning Biden or heading towards Bloomberg.
If that fundamental mistrust and wide-awake cynicism is your frame, it's not surprising that black voters aren't investing much time or attention in white voters' "hope" plays for young or female candidates or the idea of major social transformation. They just want Trump gone.
