MARIETTA, Ga. — The little girl ran up to her, wide-eyed and giddy.Davis was stunned. A former kindergarten teacher and librarian, she was more accustomed to shuttling her two sons to basketball practice than being seen as a local celebrity. But now she had been elected the only Black woman on the Cobb County School Board, gaining office in a once conservative suburban community where people who look like her rarely held positions of power.
Now Black women are mobilized and demanding an overdue return on their investment. Over the last several years and across America, Black women ran and won elections in historic numbers, from Congress to county school boards. When Stacey Abrams, a Black progressive Democrat, ran for governor in 2018, she focused her campaign on women of color. In that election, more than 51,000 Black women in Cobb County cast ballots — 20,000 more than voted in midterm elections four year earlier.
Across the county, there was soul searching over how Clinton lost white, working-class voters, but much less on why Democrats also lost some of the support of this core constituency. “We have never been at this moment,” said Aimee Allison, who in 2018 founded the network She the People, which is working to turn out a million women of color across seven battleground states. “For us as a group to recognize our own political power means that we also are demanding to govern.”
Black women can meet this moment in a way no one else can, they say: The world watched the video of George Floyd begging for his mother has he was dying under a police officer’s knee.When she looks at her own sons, she sees her babies. But the older boy is now taller than she is. He likes hoodies. She worries a stranger might see him as a menace, not a boy whose mother still has to remind him to floss his teeth.
Only occasionally did their work lead to elective office, as it did when Shirley Chisholm became the first Black woman elected to Congress, in 1968, and a candidate for president in 1972. “I said for years, ‘Maybe one day they’ll be ready for me,’” Hill said. “And as exciting as it is to be the first, it’s a little unbelievable that we’re having a conversation about being the first in the year 2020.”
“People told us that education is key to being successful,” Brown said. “What did Black women do? Black women, out of any constituency group in this country, we enter college more than any other group in this country. Then why does the wealth not reflect that?”
Black women have not been the heart of the Democrat party for a long time because the Democrat party was the party that embraced slavery, segregation, and the KKK.
they don't need another neoliberal VP, especially one that's a cop
How about after you all begin showing honorable ,conservative and, hard working black women who do not conform to your mindset?
Maybe is time for them to realize the democrat party does not have their interests as a priority
Seems racist
Kamala Harris and Stacey Abrams aren't doing them any favors.
WalkAway
Heart maybe....brains no RepMaxineWaters JacksonLeeTX18 Combined IQ of a warthog
Not now, not ever will we elect Patriot hating Socialists who play both race and feminist cards ....public office isn’t about YOU ..it s for the AMERICAN CITIZENS
Dem party will only weaponize black women, not embrace them. Never.
VP as a WOMAN....and a BLACK woman. That's a nightmare for the misogynistic and racist Donald Trump.
Why 'at the heart' of politics more than other women? I'm getting really tired of this pandering to all things black. America has large Asian, Latino, Muslim communities to name a few. They should be included in all things American, but it seems blacks always want center stage.
No. The people who actually run our government know they can control 'minority' pols just like more 'traditional' pols. They will steadily drop in generic, racial novelty candidates. This will keep dumb Americans satiated by these MEANINGLESS 'advancements in racial justice.'
Democrats used the 'TOP UP' model to their strategy by wooing disparate minority voter groups in the name of liberalism has come to a dead end.
Vote Republican, Democrats don’t believe in God, family, country or gender.
Many clapping emojis were involved.
It's worked out well so far.....lmaoooo
If a party knows that they’ll get your vote no matter what, then they have no real reason to try to fight for you. It’s wasted energy. That’s why white suburban women are the hottest ticket in town this year. Republicans who hate trump are setting the Democrat agenda now.
Bad investment
About time the black women are given their deserved places in America which they have earned in all ramifications.
What all of them?
Racism much?
Not only Black Women ... but all women!
Let em take over
Should have voted for BernieSanders
Puffff we the real electorate don't care if you are black, white, green, orange or any other. Their polices needs to make sense and be viable not in a unicorn world from both parties.
A Republican President gets elected after 8 years of a Democrat President and everyone is acting like something is mortally wrong with the country. This is very upsetting.
With all due respect, but whose fault is that? Black people largely vote Democrat but have yet to largely vote for Black women in large numbers. Are we saying that Black people who vote Democrat are prejudice towards electing Black women. The irony here is deafening.
Je suis d'accord, Candace Owen serait certainement une bonne future candidate
Well you saw the stars falling down YESTERDAY night
They are wasting their time in this party certainly when it comes to interfacing with the corrupt leadership of this party.
Never. The democrats pander to blacks and the media never calls them out for the decades of inaction while in power. Even in occurrences when the Dems had the House, Henate, and the Hval, they have never moved the needle in 55 years.
Just boggles my mind how the party of slavery gets the majority of black votes
What part of being a PUBLIC SERVANT has been lost here ? 🤔
Before them it was the party of the KKK, pro slavery, and anti women’s rights. The “party switch” never happened, there was one Dem who voted against the civil rights act who became a Republican, all the rest stayed. It’s a lie. But yeah they’ve certainly rebranded...
Everyone's time comes, no doubt
Why do Democrats own the black vote? No other race is owned by a political party in America.
Perhaps if they worked harder and stayed united, they would get what is due them!
This year is different!!!! SMFH
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