Demorcats' day of reckoning may be here

SHOULD be. Without question, Roy Moore would have won the Senate seat in Alabama if black people hadn't turned out in record numbers to support Jones. It's no secret that Democratic politicians have relied on the black vote for decades. And it's also no secret that after LYndon Johnson's election, they've paid those voters back with pretty much nothing.

The United States does not have a single black governor of the 50 states; not one of the 50 states currently has an African-American attorney general; just two African-American Democrats serve in the United States Senate — two!

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[T]hese imbalances are built into the power structures politicians have built around themselves, too. Every United States senator has a chief of staff. Guess how many of those are black? Two! And both of them are Republicans! Each U.S. senator has a communications director; only one is black, and he also works for a Republican.

  Intercept

These are astounding statistics.

It is abusive for the Democratic Party to require a level of support from African-Americans normally only seen in dictatorships, then proceed to put black folk at the back of every line in terms of leadership and policy.

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The disparity between the loyalty of black voters and Democrats’ efforts to bring them into the circles of political and financial power extends to the way the party spends its money. Of the $759 million the Democratic Party spent on contractors back in 2010, a dismal 1.5 percent was spent on African-American groups.

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The Democratic Party is clearly expecting a wave of support to carry them into power in 2018. There are already rumors that the political classes want to call it a “blue wave.” But there’s a better name: the black wave. The reason is simple: The wave won’t come at all without black votes. [...] The days of black votes without black power need to come to an end.

I don't think they will.  Not if black people turn out to put Democrats in office in 2018.  They don't talk like they've learned anything from Hillary Clinton's loss.  They're not the party of the poor.  Black people need to vote for independents or start their own party.  Revive the Panthers, or something.  Stop voting for Democrats now.  They didn't vote for Doug Jones.  They voted against Roy Moore.  I hope Jones recognizes that.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.