'If it were up to Black voters alone, there wouldn’t have been a Trump presidency that we need to be saved from.' –meelanash
It wasn’t long before accusations started flying about Black southerners being “Speaking as a Black millennial woman born in Alabama and raised in Georgia, comments like this paint a wildly inaccurate, insulting portrait of a group of people who have been the force behind several of the most significant movements of positive change in our country’s history — and are no help to any progressive movement or candidate, period.
Many of these older Black voters have lived experiences of oppression that we’ve only read about in history books, and political engagement was drilled into them from a young age as a requirement for survival in a country not too far removed from slavery. To refer to Black Americans who lived during the Jim Crow era as uninformed is incredibly dismissive of the fact that those people made possible so many of the freedoms and rights that all of us who are not white men are able to enjoy today.
The lives and experiences of some of those voters have led them to believe that Bernie Sanders can’t beat Trump — not because he can’t win enough support from their peers and their communities, but because of white Americans. Sanders’s progressive platform may resonate with them, but lives spent surrounded by more conservative white voters have, understandably, made them believe that Donald Trump would defeat Sanders in a head-to-head match-up.
Some of our elders also genuinely believe Biden can get more done, or they are just more conservative and disagree with Sanders’s progressive policies. But even more conservative Black voters still generally swing to the left. In 2018, a Pew Research Center survey found
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