As a black loyal Democrat, I say SCREW the white working class who insist on voting Republican

[EffieBlack]

87. Yes, it is MUCH easier - and MUCH MUCH smarter - to focus on getting people who already share our

views out to vote than to try to convince people who are aligned with a party and politicians whose interests are diametrically opposed to ours. Yes.

Black voters supported Hillary 90%+. THOSE are the people we should be working to get to the polls. If they get to the polls, they vote Democratic and we win. Period.

Instead, we went chasing around after white working class people who already made clear they were in Trump's camp and white women whom we assumed would vote for Hillary but who instead decided to line up with white men to support a misogynist. These are not stupid people. They know exactly what Trump stood for. They know exactly what the Democrats stand for. We talked to them until we blue in the face. We told them over and over and over what the ramifications would be with a Trump presidency. And you know what? THEY DIDN'T CARE AND THEY VOTED FOR HIM ANYWAY. You think that if we just talk to them differently the next time around, they'll suddenly change their minds? What are we going to tell them that we haven't told them before? Other than - "ok, ok - we'll be more like the people you're supporting - and since the main difference between the people you're supporting and aligning yourselves with is that we care about people of color and aren't afraid to say it, we'll roll that back so that YOU feel happier and more comfortable with us."

That's the only way to get those people to vote Democratic. Let's convince them we're not all racial identity politics - i.e., we won't talk about race, we won't encourage black and brown people to be an integral part of our party, we won't call out racism when we see it because, after all, we don't want to OFFEND anyone.

I am appalled at the number of supposed Democrats on this thread who are twisting themselves into knots coddling and defending racists as if they are just confused children who need to be shown the light. Meanwhile, you all completely ignore people of color's concerns, tell us that WE don't understand racism or the racial dynamic that we have experienced firsthand for decades in America in general and politics and the most recent election in particular and that we should just be quiet so as not to OFFEND the very people who offend us constantly and who use their political power to elect people who have made it clear they want to subjugate and marginalize us. Racism to many of you is clearly no big deal. But those of us who experience it and call it what it is are the problem.

True colors, indeed.