There is one profound truth this coming November – the Democratic Party knows it needs the support of black voters to win the 2020 presidential election.
Fortunately for Democrats, black voters have been consistently loyal to the party: According to Pew Research Center well over 80% of African-Americans identify with them; Republican support among black voters remains in the single digits.
Charlamagne was correct in the implicit sense that some black voters are swing voters figuring out whether they are voting for Biden or not voting at all.
And the truth of the matter is that Biden’s record consists of authoring the Crime Bill of 1994, and he did take a lead role in the fight against sending white children to majority-black schools and black children to majority-white schools as Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), who his campaign is currently vetting for the vice presidential nominee slot, keenly pointed out during one of the first Democratic debates.
Biden’s comment exposes at deepest levels and broadest scope the foolishness of what continues to be the perception of black voters – they are monolithic in thought and political action.
