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The Black Vote Will Decide the 2020 Election
As candidate diversity disappears, Black voters’ support reigns supreme
There was one thing we all learned from Tuesday’s debate: the next nominee of the Democratic Party to face off against Donald Trump will not be a person of color. After beginning with the most diverse presidential field in the history of the United States, we have reverted back to an almost exclusively White field aside from Andrew Yang’s continued presence (though he was absent from the most recent debate stage). After arguably one of the greatest presidencies in a generation helmed by our nation’s first African American president, Barack Obama, how did we manage to get back here and who will be able to win the critical swath of Black voters?
Following Hillary Clinton’s 2016 loss, the media has been obsessed with all of the wrong questions, namely the issue of electability. The loudly-touted explanation following the stunning loss of the most qualified person ever to run for president was that she missed the mark because she was a woman and was “not likeable.” Regardless of the falseness of this idea, it took root and the media began to perpetuate the fallacy that only another White man could beat a White man even though Clinton won the popular vote by a shocking 3 million votes. Combine the electability nonsense with the…
