I can agree with most everything else and the sentiment, but one one important note is this note. While it may look very bad and overwhelming, 85% of the votes for Trump were white, it is important to note that Joe Biden still counted on a majority of white votes as well to win. While that percent is lower, it is still a majority, 61%. By numbers that translated into almost 50 million white votes for Joe and 62 million white votes for Trump. So it’s not a question of “some white folks” being liberal, but a majority. Trump is trying to drastically change that perception of white voters not being liberal because he needed those white centrist votes and hoped to appeal to their emotion, rather than their conscious.
Also of interest is that while black voters by percentage remained roughly the same, Trump actually picked up black votes in two successive elections. 97& of blacks in 2012 voted Democrat, 93% in 2016, then down again to 90% in 2020. So the black “block” was actually eroded. 5% of black women voted Trump, while 15% of black men. This increase is boggling to my mind, as I consider him a racist and misogynist and could never vote for someone supporting those values. But there must be something to him, like the love of defiance and lust for power, that appeals to them to draw them over from the democrats. So the black block is eroding, even under Joe.
But ultimately I am upset to see Biden not passing these items you mention —protecting voter rights, enacting police reform, winning passage of the social safety net. Although these issues can effect poor white voters as well, they are perceived as black issues, and that perception is what is causing the problem. There was a reparations committee supposed to be set up, last March I believe, but I haven’t heard anything and it was pushed aside it appears.
It should be noted on Martin Luther King Jr Day, that MLK pushed ahead for a black issue, started off in the minority of blacks in standing up (even if almost all probably agreed with him mentally and in spirit), but kept organizing and pushing ahead based on the thirst for justice, against injustice, and won his battle, thanks to his great organizational skills and dedicated non-violent disciplined approach. When he won, resulting in two major acts being passed, blacks were still in the minority. Never underestimate the power of standing strong against injustice. One individual or a handful can change history. In fact, that’s the only way it is usually changed.