https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/06/africanamerican_candidates_polling_at_1_percent_in_iowa.html#ixzz5qbtRJBT6African-American Candidates Polling at 1 Percent in Iowa
One day, black Democrats will wake up and say, "We've been had." For a half century, African Americans have been giving Democrats a huge majority of their votes in national elections--91 percent for Hillary in 2016, 90 percent in the 2018 Congressional contests--and in return Democratic kingmakers have not seen fit to take a single presidential candidate of African American heritage seriously.
Yes, there was Barack Obama. He looked the part, and sometimes he even tried to sound it, but as Obama's part-black Hawaiian friend Keith Kakugawa said of pal Barry, “He wasn’t African American, at least not with the connotation that term has taken on: a meaning that includes a heritage of slavery.” Added Kakugawa, “The only Black influence he had in his life was television." >>>
Hispanic candidates, the presumed future of the Democratic Party, are doing no better. The sole Hispanic candidate, Julian Castro, is polling at 1 percent of the vote. By contrast, in 2016, the two Republican Hispanic candidates, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, got 50 percent of the actual Iowa Caucus vote between them. The leading black Republican candidate in Iowa, Ben Carson, got 9 percent of the vote. In 2016, not one of the six announced Democratic candidates was black or Hispanic.....
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You know, the Democrats as long ago as 2008 had a chance to nab two birds with one stone, if they'd selected former congresswoman Cynthia McKinney of Georgia as their presidential candidate.
A two-fer; a woman and a black.
Why they didn't jump at the opportunity still escapes me.