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African Americans Had Their Chance For A Democratic Revolution.
As race relations crumble throughout the US, let’s remember many of the same people out on the street demanding social justice let the one man who’s worked for it his entire life lose the Democratic Primary twice.
The man who walked with MLK during his March on Washington back in 1963.
The man who was arrested for literally chaining himself to a black woman at a civil rights demonstration in the 1960s. (Pictured)
The man who has been demanding a democratic revolution since he first ran for president back in 2016. But then, just like now, his Achilles heel was the same. Black voters refused to come out, refused to support that revolution. Backing instead the same career politicians who’ve been in government for decades and changed little to nothing in terms of social justice.
Instead of choosing that man they chose the one who helped to pass one of the largest mass incarceration drives of African Americans in recent decades. How’s that for social justice?
Both in the 2016 and 2020 primaries, the latter of which is pretty much decided though still ongoing, black voters apparently did not want a revolution. But now Washington is on fire…
