Marc Spector
the 4'11 Cuban
...but...black people ourselves didn't embrace more leftist ideas in the primary. Black people are the reason Joe Biden is the democratic nominee, so this is straight lunacy to give the man the nomination then turn around like "WHERE ARE OUR POLICY PROPOSALS?!?!"
like...the time to force the issue is always the primary, not the general. not supporting a democrat in the general is always going to be a losing proposition, I don't care how it's framed. time doesn't stand still and racists don't idle when we choose not to participate, they just take advantage of our lack of participation to further antagonize us and make change difficult.
A lot of people act like Joe Biden was just selected to be the nominee. We had far better choices in the primary. Bernie and Warren both had progressive policies that would do more but black people supported Joe.
If you break it out demographically, we have old black people choosing who the nominee is and a subset of young black people not liking that choice and reacting emotionally. The rational thing to do as part of that subset would be to engage the elderly black people, call out reps like Clyburn and others who play favoritism / relationship politics instead of black constituent politics CONSISTENTLY, and begin to nominate Democrats who have a plan for us.
What "we" (saying this as a younger black person) seem to do instead is have minimal participation in the nomination process and expect it to yield results for us. Politics don't work that way. If you don't play, you never win.
This country will never give you shyt you don't demand if you're a person of color.
I absolutely agree.
Same principle goes for cac leftists too.
They'd rather have in fighting to figure who is the most ideologically pure than come to a consensus on what they do agree on and go from there.