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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Democratic Party better be prepared for the rise of brown and black women......
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/brown-women-democratic-party_us_5a31a32de4b07ff75b001456?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009Wounded Bear
(58,662 posts)pdxflyboy
(677 posts)And I will support it!
stonecutter357
(12,697 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Those people are the problem AND big beneficiaries of Democratic Party policies. If it was up to Black and Briwn voters, WE WOULD NOT HAVE Trump, period. Black and Briwn people voted overwhelmingly against Trump, White people voted for him.
stonecutter357
(12,697 posts)and Bernie Bros can go to hell .
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Black women hold their homes and communities together. Let's give them a turn at the levers of power.
Unrelated story.
In 2008 I was working for Obama For America and working on vote protection in Savannah. After working between two black churches during the day that were voting precincts, I went to the results watching party. I was approached by so many middle aged and older Black women who hugged my neck with tears in their eyes simply because I was a young white guy who was on their side (this is what they told me). We all celebrated (even though we lost Georgia, we won Savannah and the Nation) long into the night. It's still one of my Top 5 days of my life. Wow, is there cat dander in here? My eyes are welling up.
kentuck
(111,098 posts)I don't think that is necessarily true anymore?
It is a party of minorities and coalitions, and many whites are only part of that coalition. It is a Party of African-Americans as much as anyone, in my opinion.
The Party is changing.
I have never seen the Democratic Party as a "white people's" party.
You don't speak for me. PERIOD
kentuck
(111,098 posts)I think most people have thought of the Democratic Party as a majority "white" Party.
I did not mean to say that the Party preferred "white" people over others.
My apologies.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)The party in minority White. Majority White electorates, except for very blue areas unfailingly send a republican to Washington.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)wasupaloopa
(4,516 posts)Dems care about DACA but the repubs hold Congress.
You can't do anything if you are not in power. Dividing us up by race or sex or left or center or anything else is not the path to power.
Stop all this mea colpa bull shit and start forming coalitions.
This article is meant to keep us divided and in shame. We need unity and pride! Get out the vote together!
brush
(53,784 posts)wasupaloopa
(4,516 posts)not describe any of us!
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And now I want to break up.
I realize now that the love has been one-sided, unrequited. Youve never recognized me, as a brown woman. Youve taken my love, my money, my tokenism, with nary anything in return. You married the white woman and hooked up with me on the side.
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Black Lives Matter is a second ― or third ― thought. Where is your outrage over the national epidemic of police brutality against black people? You continue to call angry white men who commit mass murder lone wolves. But if someone who looks like me screams Allah and fires a gun, its terrorism. And you wonder why angry white men are gunning down innocent brown men at bars, in their yards, on the street.
For all your talk about Dreamers, theres been little action. You dont seem to give a crap about kids of color who will be kicked out of this country, the only country they know. What if all those Dreamers were white? I suspect thered be a very different outcome.
You spend a lot of time and energy wooing white voters, while giving short shrift to voters of colors and assuming well always show up for you.
Aristus
(66,380 posts)MineralMan
(146,317 posts)Why would they not be? I don't get it.
DURHAM D
(32,610 posts)The title of the article -
Im A Brown Woman Whos Breaking Up With The Democratic Party
I realize now that the love has been one-sided.
LisaL
(44,973 posts)She claims she is leaving.
Total opposite of the OP's subject line.
HAB911
(8,893 posts)I just hope they treat us better than some treated them!
onecaliberal
(32,861 posts)Kirk Lover
(3,608 posts)The Dem Party has given an outlet for these women to rise....and they're gonna keep on rising. Preach this shit to the RepubliCON's.