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The Democratic Party better be prepared for the rise of brown and black women...... (Original Post) a kennedy Dec 2017 OP
They are better prepared than the Repubs... Wounded Bear Dec 2017 #1
Truth SHRED Dec 2017 #2
Im ready for it. pdxflyboy Dec 2017 #3
get out and vote are you get TRUMP.... stonecutter357 Dec 2017 #4
Why don't you tell that to the Susan Sarandons or Bernie Bros? Blue_true Dec 2017 #18
Susan Sarandon should have been locked up after makeing pretty baby . stonecutter357 Dec 2017 #19
I welcome them. We've seen what white guys do, lets give anyone else a few decades NightWatcher Dec 2017 #5
Most people tend to think of the Democratic Party as a "white people's" Party. kentuck Dec 2017 #6
What? DURHAM D Dec 2017 #10
Sorry. That did not come across the way I meant. kentuck Dec 2017 #15
With only 40% of Whites voting for Democrats. Blue_true Dec 2017 #20
I have never had that impression. bettyellen Dec 2017 #14
Another bash the Dems story. Why do we keep falling for these. Dems are not in power now. wasupaloopa Dec 2017 #7
You are misinterpreting this OP 100%. It's intent is the exact opposite of what you are saying brush Dec 2017 #16
Did you read it? Here it is again tell me this isn't divisive and bashing Dems. Most of this does wasupaloopa Dec 2017 #22
Why wouldn't we be? Aristus Dec 2017 #8
They're more than welcome. MineralMan Dec 2017 #9
Your subject line is pretty much the opposite of the article you link to. DURHAM D Dec 2017 #11
Well, exactly. LisaL Dec 2017 #21
I welcome it HAB911 Dec 2017 #12
Wooohoooo. They are already here they are welcome and we are excited! onecaliberal Dec 2017 #13
This is getting absurd...which party has the most elected black officials...man or woman? Kirk Lover Dec 2017 #17

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
18. Why don't you tell that to the Susan Sarandons or Bernie Bros?
Sat Dec 16, 2017, 03:25 PM
Dec 2017

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)
19. Susan Sarandon should have been locked up after makeing pretty baby .
Sat Dec 16, 2017, 03:35 PM
Dec 2017

and Bernie Bros can go to hell .

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
5. I welcome them. We've seen what white guys do, lets give anyone else a few decades
Sat Dec 16, 2017, 12:26 PM
Dec 2017

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)
6. Most people tend to think of the Democratic Party as a "white people's" Party.
Sat Dec 16, 2017, 12:27 PM
Dec 2017

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.

DURHAM D

(32,610 posts)
10. What?
Sat Dec 16, 2017, 01:00 PM
Dec 2017

I have never seen the Democratic Party as a "white people's" party.

You don't speak for me. PERIOD

kentuck

(111,098 posts)
15. Sorry. That did not come across the way I meant.
Sat Dec 16, 2017, 01:28 PM
Dec 2017


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)
20. With only 40% of Whites voting for Democrats.
Sat Dec 16, 2017, 03:53 PM
Dec 2017

The party in minority White. Majority White electorates, except for very blue areas unfailingly send a republican to Washington.

 

wasupaloopa

(4,516 posts)
7. Another bash the Dems story. Why do we keep falling for these. Dems are not in power now.
Sat Dec 16, 2017, 12:51 PM
Dec 2017

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!

 

wasupaloopa

(4,516 posts)
22. Did you read it? Here it is again tell me this isn't divisive and bashing Dems. Most of this does
Sat Dec 16, 2017, 04:26 PM
Dec 2017

not describe any of us!

snip:

And now I want to break up.

I realize now that the love has been one-sided, unrequited. You’ve never recognized me, as a brown woman. You’ve 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.
The
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, it’s “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, there’s been little action. You don’t 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 there’d 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 we’ll always show up for you.

DURHAM D

(32,610 posts)
11. Your subject line is pretty much the opposite of the article you link to.
Sat Dec 16, 2017, 01:04 PM
Dec 2017

The title of the article -

I’m A Brown Woman Who’s Breaking Up With The Democratic Party
I realize now that the love has been one-sided.

 

Kirk Lover

(3,608 posts)
17. This is getting absurd...which party has the most elected black officials...man or woman?
Sat Dec 16, 2017, 02:56 PM
Dec 2017

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.

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