African
Americans, especially in the South, are seeing a re-emergence of JimCrowe. They see Trump as appealing
directly to racists around the country, and they are seeing people who are now
proudly racist and spewing their bigotry as a badge of honor. They are seeing the Republican Party shutting
down polls in their neighborhoods in order to make voting more difficult. We saw plenty of evidence of this on Super
Tuesday as we saw extraordinarily long lines in Texas that people were waiting
for hours to vote. They are seeing voter
ID laws as a way to suppress votes from African Americans who do not have
driver’s licenses, and see that getting IDs is made deliberately difficult by the
Republican Party. They are seeing a
Republican Party that is dangerous to them.
They are seeing the clock turned back to very dark times that they
thought were gone. They aren’t
gone. They are coming back.
And they
saw Joe Biden as the one who they connected to in an emotional
way.
So they
voted for Biden. And the other moderates
– Buttigieg and Klobachar understood the message and withdrew prior to Super
Tuesday so Democrats could unite behind one centrist Democrat – Biden – against
the radical candidate calling for The Revolution wished for in his youth –
Sanders.
Good for
them. They led the way.
Be clear, I
am not saying that my conservative friends are Jim Crowe racists. But it is very clear also that Jim Crowe
racists are making very strong moves to go back in time. And they are Trumpsters. And that is pretty disturbing.
