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A gutted Voting Rights Act doesn’t erase Democrats’ unpaid debt to Black voters

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Democrats are asking Black voters to do again what we have done every cycle for 60 years: show up, carry the party, accept the thanks that arrives as a press release. I spent 20 years inside that arrangement. The accounting is overdue. Black voters loaned the Democratic Party a country in 2020. The party spent it on everything except the lender. Here are the receipts. My count of 2020 Federal Election Commission data shows Georgia flipped for Democrats by just under 12,000 votes, Pennsylvania by 81,000 and Wisconsin by 21,000. Joe Biden won  92 percent of Black voters nationally . In short, without that coalition, Trump wins. By 2024, Trump’s share of Black men younger than 45 had doubled to roughly  26 percent . Democrats went on cable and called it a  messaging problem . It was not a messaging problem. The problem was that Black voters are not a base. We are creditors, and the debt was far past due. On Aug. 6, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed the  Voting Rights Act .…

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