This article could go in several threads, but it has some important lessons from 2016, drawn from the black community in Milwaukee, Wisconsin 2016.
" the predominantly black neighborhoods surrounding it currently have the highest rate of incarcerated black men in the country"
" the uncomfortable fact remains that black voter turnout in 2016 was down in over half the country"
“ We had Baltimore, we had Charlotte, we had Milwaukee. I wonder—how does that factor into a community’s confidence in having an African American president, if during the tenure when we had [one] we’ve seen some of the most atrocious murders by police officers of unarmed black men? We’ve seen the decline in African American wealth.”
“Did we lose confidence in the power or the ability of getting things done by a President? Were we coming off of a hangover or fatigue? Do we still have confidence in democracy at all?”
"The city of Milwaukee, where almost 90% of the region’s black males live, has lost over three-quarters of its industrial jobs since the 1960s. In metro Milwaukee, all of the region’s net job growth since the 1980s has occurred in the suburbs, where few working-age black males live due to past and present housing segregation, and where transportation links between the central city and suburban jobs are poor "
"There ain’t no such thing as Democrat and Republican"
" the widespread messaging was that people of color simply had too much to lose with a Trump presidency ... But many of them felt that they already lost."
"A growing number of black people and black women in particular appear not only to have lost faith in the electoral process in 2016, but to be losing faith in the two major political parties. "
" some liberals are poised to cling to the Clintons’ triangulation playbook and abandon meaningful economic appeals to black constituents."
"the Democratic Party just takes us for granted that we’re going to vote for them. The Republicans attempt to just peel us off and disenfranchise us. In order for us to be taken seriously as constituents, I think we have to start a ticket and articulate our demands ourselves. "
Read the whole thing:
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/10/the-color-of-economic-anxietysidd