the implicit (and sometimes explicit) assumption that black voters will simply fall in line behind what white op ed columnists and a few white anonymous party insiders tell them to do is really, really fucking gross, man, and i am seeing it everywhere
Multiple times in the last couple weeks I have been explicitly “informed” (heavy air quotes there) that that is indeed how Black voters behaved in 2008, 2012, 2016 (especially), and 2020: they got their marching orders and diligently obeyed.
Let’s just say that one more than one instance I have been told that Black voters were the impetus behind both Obama’s win and the passing of things like Prop 8 in California.
