Black Democrats have been supporting moderate liberal to conservative Democratic politicians for 50 plus years. For whatever reason white liberals and their paid tv talking heads (looking at you Joy Reid) just cannot seem to understand why a black person in Atlanta, Houston or Prince Georges County MD give Elizabeth Warren th…
Black Democrats have been supporting moderate liberal to conservative Democratic politicians for 50 plus years. For whatever reason white liberals and their paid tv talking heads (looking at you Joy Reid) just cannot seem to understand why a black person in Atlanta, Houston or Prince Georges County MD give Elizabeth Warren the "side eye" when hear talk about free college and wealth taxes. In the experience of most black people, they end up paying for these things without getting any of the benefits.
The white liberal's biggest problem has been and always will be that they don't actually know many black people and the few that they do know they probably don't talk to. If they did, they would know that what black people really want is not to defund the police, but to have police patrol the streets in their neighborhoods and work with them to stop crime; they would like to call 9-11 and have cops show up in less than 2 hours; they would like to go to schools that are properly funded; they would like to have policies that help them start businesses so that they can build wealth for their communities; and they would like the government to protect them from attacks on their rights by state and local governments. In other words, they want what everyone else in the US wants, and has benefitted from since at least WWII: basic, run of the mill liberalism that was once the purview of the GOP before 1964, and is now (still?) the ideology of the Democratic Party, at least since 1960. They do not want a revolution, or redistribution program or anything else (reparations is not withstanding, which means different things to different people).
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Black Democrats have been supporting moderate liberal to conservative Democratic politicians for 50 plus years. For whatever reason white liberals and their paid tv talking heads (looking at you Joy Reid) just cannot seem to understand why a black person in Atlanta, Houston or Prince Georges County MD give Elizabeth Warren the "side eye" when hear talk about free college and wealth taxes. In the experience of most black people, they end up paying for these things without getting any of the benefits.
The white liberal's biggest problem has been and always will be that they don't actually know many black people and the few that they do know they probably don't talk to. If they did, they would know that what black people really want is not to defund the police, but to have police patrol the streets in their neighborhoods and work with them to stop crime; they would like to call 9-11 and have cops show up in less than 2 hours; they would like to go to schools that are properly funded; they would like to have policies that help them start businesses so that they can build wealth for their communities; and they would like the government to protect them from attacks on their rights by state and local governments. In other words, they want what everyone else in the US wants, and has benefitted from since at least WWII: basic, run of the mill liberalism that was once the purview of the GOP before 1964, and is now (still?) the ideology of the Democratic Party, at least since 1960. They do not want a revolution, or redistribution program or anything else (reparations is not withstanding, which means different things to different people).
You how many white liberals there are? Millions. It's quite stupid to treat them as a monolith. They have many viewpoints and opinions.