The government is burying the anti-Asian violent hate crime crisis

Re:The government is burying the anti-Asian violent hate cri... by tptacek on Monday August 08, 2022 @02:55AM (#32382987)

If you want to understand more about the connection between the Democratic party and Black voters, you might start with "Steadfast Democrats" by Ismail White and Chryl Laird, which goes into the history and talks a bit about how both cultural changes and changing political dynamics might change that relationship (for instance: the Black church is a huge component of Black voting).

There's nothing racist about studying and understanding these things. There's definitely something racist about saying Black people "can't" vote Republican, or should for some reason vote for Sanders (Black Democrats are to the right of white Democrats).

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Re:The government is burying the anti-Asian violent hate cri... by badrabbit on Monday August 08, 2022 @03:08AM (#32383052)

Thanks. I agree with you in that studying these things is not a problem. Expectations and assumptions in a social setting however are imo, I think I agree with you then.

It isn't just black but all sorts of other demographics including people from "fly over" midwest states that are more to the center. Same for republicans, plenty are not trumpists. The problem is no viable third party, imo, the deeper root cause is the fact that the president is elected by the people instead of legislature combined with "winner takes all" voting system. There is no requirement that stipulates in order for an executive branch of government to be valid, the majority (or even 55%+) of legislature's seats need to form a supporting coalition (this is why Israel has been without a proper government for a months now unless that changed).

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