Democratic Party Owes Black Female Voters

There are many reasons Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 presidential election, but a lack of support from black women isn’t one of them.

According to exit polls, more than 90 percent of black women voted for Clinton, continuing the trend that few demographic groups are as faithful to the Democratic Party as African American women.

But after the 2016 election, the demographic’s confidence in the Democratic National Committee wasn’t as high as the party began focusing their attention on courting white working class voters.

The Washington Post’s Vanessa Williams previously reported:

“Black women have been the most loyal supporters of the Democratic Party, through thick and thin,” Avis Jones-DeWeever, an adviser to the Black Women’s Roundtable, said during September’s Congressional Black Caucus conference. She said the party has focused more on wooing back “white male voters who have not supported the Democratic Party for 50 years” rather than “watering the garden in your own back yard.”

And just days before Tuesday’s election, bombshell accusations in a new book by former DNC chair Donna Brazile seemed to reinforce these sentiments for some voters.

Seen on social media:

If black people had voted 68%. for a pedophile the media would have spent all day questioning the moral character of black families and communities.

I feel like I must mention I paraphrased the above because....well you know.

Which is why we need to run for public office and avoid becoming everyone else's savior. Especially since the other group of people who need the most saving routinely vote against themselves at every turn.