Well that's... Contrived.
When Biden wins the nomination, it'll be because he won the black vote. Same reason Clinton won the nomination. Remember the firewall? Black voters may just like Biden for reasons that have nothing to do with feeling compelled to vote for someone that is palatable to white conservatives, and saying otherwise seems very patronizing.
Given I based my post on what had been posted in this thread and gone unchallenged (if contrasted), I'm not certain how my post is patronizing or contrived. And, given your post did make me take pause, I took the time to educate myself and research. It seems my conclusion is a conclusion supported by a number different articles written by black political analysts trying to explain and contextualize black support for Biden and other candidates this cycle. Here are a couple of them:
Like, I'm sure to some Black voters, particularly older straight black men, they do want Biden because of his policies, but none of the articles by black authors I read seem to bring it up as a particularly major point, if brought up as a point at all. It seems about as important as the Obama connection, if that. It's been brought up in this thread in contrast, sure, but it's come up just as much as pragmatism has been. Thus, synthesizing this information, it seems it's
at best a 50/50 split between pragmatism and the individual being moderate/conservative.
Thus, I really don't see the issue in saying we white people need to do better in showing we can support candidates who want good things for all PoC rather than supporting a "comfortable" status quo (read: comfortable for upper-middle class and higher folks, typically white and straight) that disenfranchises different PoC groups in different ways. I don't see the issue in saying that laying the blame for poor candidates at the feet of black people is wildly unfair-- which is something black posters have brought up in this topic. My post was meant to just be me recognizing my white privilege and the need for me to do something with it. Basically, like faceless said above, yeah, we should be out canvassing black voters and other PoC if we want PoC to vote for our chosen candidate over Biden, and we should try to get better at getting our fellow white people to stop being, well, racist, either in microaggressive or actively bigoted ways.
Perhaps the way I phrased it came across as patronizing or contrived, in which case, yeah, I do apologize for that. I hope my explanation got the point I was trying to get across actually across.
