re: #401 BigPapa

I should also add that this ‘AA vote Dem because’ narrative also strongly implies not only that AA are stupid but that they’re willing to be bought off for some free crap. That they’ll accept ‘living on the plantation’ for some tidbits, barely enough to exist on.

Very nasty white superiority/racist stuff. The GOP frontrunner is pushing this, although wrapped in a pretty ‘just trying to help AA folk’ wrapper with a ‘Dems really don’t care about AA folk’ bow tie.

Indeed. It’s like hey “They’re too stupid to know what’s good for them but they’re also easily bought off.” Not to mention that there are plenty of whites on public assistance too and plenty of thriving African-Americans. The GOP will never admit it but they lost the African-American vote because they decided to cater to bigotry and took for granted a bloc that had long been loyal to them even in the early years of the Depression and after Reconstruction.