There’s no question that what you say here about black Americans were called up to win the Civil War; their vast numbers were critical. There’s no question that the lost their land and vote afterwards through a continued thirty year “war on blacks” in each confederate state, until each state in turn “finally” disenfranchised them by the tens of thousands starting in 1890 with a new Mississippi state constitution and up until about 1908 with the Tennessee state constitution written and passed to deliberately and overtly erase 97 percent of black Republican American voters from the rolls. The white conservative MAGA wing of the Democratic Party “eliminated” 184,000 of the 187,000 registered black voters in Alabama through a new state constitution, overthrowing not only the spirit of democracy but actually democracy, as the continued “threat” of the other party was destroyed, leaving them in near complete control. The Georgia governor ran his 1907 campaign under the explicit promise to disenfranchise black voters. He made good on that promise. That disenfranchised last for over five decades.
Thus, given the viciousness violent and political insurrection against democracy by these confederate MAGAs, who succeeded until 1965, why did Joe Biden abandon his promise to support the John Lewis voting rights bill? There should be nothing more sacred to him than not only defending democracy but supporting that critical black American voting segment that stood up to support him? Is it because he represented Delaware, a segregationist state, stood up for school integration and buddied up to Strum Thurmond, an avowed segregationist and bigot, in many chummy photos taken decades apart? Once he passed the infrastructure bill and CHIPs Act, worth untold billions to corporations, he ditched the whole black voter democracy thing. I find him to be weak for not pushing and standing up for black American voters. He is a transactionist, using groups and people at his will, and after over 52 years in politics, he is expert and deal making and being slippery. I think he’s done a good job, and I’m upset there is no alternative, and I “have to” vote for him or else we face real nasty authoritarian confederacy, but I don’t see him making a stand more than tepid vague promises about anti-white systemic racism. Because it’s the systemic part that has to fought against. That takes a deep commitment he is not willing to make.
And yes I voted three times for Obama and miss him, and respect your views of course. I just like to point out that we need deep commit to restore democracy for all. We have to stop relying on black Americans to save democracy (;-0 it’s true, white got to overcome it). Thanks again.
