If it was anyone else who lost the SAME group of voters, the SAME WAY (thru the South) as they did just 4 years ago, folks would rightfully say...how/WHY have you not figured out how to court these states/voters? But no...gotta be anti-Black about it. Again. Smh
I believe this is the first year Iowa will not determine the Dem nominee (Pete won right?). So what rules? Seriously? Folks get pissed every year about Black voters having a say. Every year folks show their disdain for Black Voters. Even other Black folks. But the bottom line...
...like, bruh...you gotta do the work. You didn’t. Folks expected the same 2016 game plan to work without doing any extra work w/ Black Voters in the South. 2016 is 1 thing, but to repeat it let’s folks know you don’t take Black voters seriously. You think you have enuf ...
...support from everyone else. That they would be enough. And folks show they ass wishing it was enough. But it ain’t. Black voters are the Dem base & as much as folks in the party hate it, these are the facts. So here we are. Folks being anti-Black & talking about Black...
...voters in the same way Republicans do. That same condescending bs that Black voters can smell from a mile away...cause that’s how this country has talked about Black voters for centuries...instead of listening, HEARING & DOING THE WORK. You can be mad at who folks turned...
...out & voted for, or consider the ways the candidate & his supporters dropped the ball so maybe next time they’ll be successful? Or just be anti-Black & call Black voters dumb again. But good luck with that. Folks talk crazy on here knowing damn well they don’t...
...talk to those voters & family members like that in person. Ya’ll know damn well you haven’t heard none of your fam talk about the other guy. If you have that’s great! But for other folks, you knew who ya momma, daddy, aunties & them were going for. And you knew why.
Don’t have to agree, but you know & you know why. The other guy should’ve cared enough to know & act accordingly. Now maybe there’s nothing you could do. Folks on here say what they want about Obama on here, but in the real world, that man is loved. And in the real world...
...politicians have been in these communities for DECADES. Again, you don’t have to agree, but acting like folks politics #Onhere is the same as the real world, it’s foolish. Ofcourse we got the same outcome. Obama was able to excite these folks AND new voters in a way we’ve...
...never seen. That should be the blueprint. It wasn’t gonna be Pete. The women have to deal with sexism & don’t be a BW or WOC. I know folks don’t like talking about 2016 but Black voters came out & dealt with MASSIVE voter suppression to still vote for the 1st Woman Candidate.
Folks on here hate Hillz & that’s fine but don’t suggest that Black Voters are somehow scary. 80-90 percent of Black Voters that year turned up to vote for the 1st Woman nominee in numbers no other group can match. Those are the facts. POCs did their job that day as well.
White people did not. White Women did not. Black voters know we don’t have time to play these games again & let this man have another 4. After Obama Black voters were still open to new. Because new worked!!! And they showed up to vote another NEW. Yes folks know the Clintons...
...uk what I mean. The rest of the country said NO. Black voters aren’t taking that chance again, so here we are. Tell your candidates do put in the work with Black voters outside of election years & we’ll see where we are in another 4 years. Or don’t & be mad all over again lol.
And I voted for/believe in Warren & I know her campaign knows this. The saddest part of this for Warren? In articles about the many diff ways Black voted in Super Tuesday, so many Black Women liked Warren. Like really fucked with her. But they knew & said, they weren’t gonna...
...make the same mistake they did in 2016, thinking WP (WW) were gonna show up the same way Black ppl did in 08’/12’. They didn’t. 2016 set the tone for a lot of shit that folks don’t want to admit to. And looking at some of the results where there aren’t as many Black Voters...
...these women were right. Cause so far, the other guy is sweeping places with a lot of White Dem voters as well🤷🏾♀️. Places that your man SHOULD be cleaning up in. Dems have a lot of work to do to continue pushing the party left. But that can’t happen w/o knowing what the...
...party, the actual base of the party, want/feel/think. We are not a monolith. We are the base of the party tho. Folks have to care enough to figure this shit out.
Folks hated Hillary so much they won’t acknowledge how 2016 has hurt women candidates. So now we’re here, knowing out of the 3 of them, Warren is the better candidate but she had to drop out bcuz BW knew WP/WW were not gonna vote for her. It had to be a WM. And here we are.
