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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Democrats need to stop worrying about blacks voters voting for Trump and instead focus on why people don't want to vote for Biden. The list is long: age, immigration, support fo

r Israel, policies regarding sexual identity, homelessness, access to healthcare, housing, CRIME, etc. People living in urban areas really have a lot to grapple with and fear mongering them to not vote for Trump is not going to work this time.  And it has everything to do with believing that Democrats won't deliver on these issues and less to do with believing Trump will solve these problems (we know he won't). [/quote]

+ a million.[/quote]

WTF are you talking about? 81 million people voted for Biden. Polls a year out only register that a lot of people like to complain about things and imagine that some ideal candidate might appear out of thin air. Those who want someone other than Biden are all over the political spectrum. No potential candidate would poll a majority at this point. [/quote]

This is not about a fantasy candidate - it more like voter apathy. All I hear as a black voter is something to the effect that Trump will have us back on a plantation within 90 days of his inauguration.  Portraying Trump as the Boogeyman is really not an effective strategy to retain or attract voters. [/quote]

Exactly. It is always, look the other way at our bad policies, because theirs is worse. Most people would probably like to see changes to allow at least some standard allowance for abortions and caps to control the border situation. Instead all we have is all or other options according to the loudmouths. [/quote]

Humor me. How are they worse. As a highly educated black woman, I look at how conservatives went after Gay and can only wonder when you will come after me. That's how my highly educated friends feel now. No thanks on the GOP. I'll take my changes.[/quote]

As a highly educated black woman, I’m surprised at your spelling and punctuation errors. [/quote]

Holding up Gay as a victim is ironic. She was a mediocre academic with non-existent and non-substantive publication or research history. She had a controversial run as administrator against key black faculty members who didn't toe the line. And she plagiarized, which is essentially rule #1 of what not to do if you work in academia.

There are much more accomplished college leaders who also happen to be black, such as the incoming new president of Boston University, or Brown's Ruth Gee (now retired). Why Harvard doubled down on Gay of all people is a bit bizarre. But rushing to defend her exposes the reality of the situation - she was a major beneficiary of third rate affirmative action failing upwards. She was only president of Harvard because she was black, not because of anything she accomplished in her academic or even administrative life. And, ironically, she was from a family with origins in wealthy upper class Haiti and went to elite boarding schools, so she didn't work her way to the top. I would not hold her up as a paragon to admire or respect.[/quote]

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