BlackPAC for BLACK VOTERS

"BlackPAC is an independent, Black-led organization that uses the power of year-round political engagement and elections to change our economic, justice, and political systems.

We are committed to long-term, sustained engagement with Black voters. We don’t just show up in communities to ask for their votes. We knock on their doors, we engage online, we make the phone calls, and we listen year-round to ideas and concerns of Black voters."

http://www.blackpac.com/ 

Read More on BlackPAC's efforts:  

https://www.npr.org/2018/05/18/611783940/50-states-and-no-black-governors-but-that-could-change-in-2018

Do even more reading before you become involved via this group. 

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A super PAC has raised millions to mobilize black voters. Does it matter that its funders are white?

BlackPAC’s financial resources, for one, do not come from an army of small-dollar, “grassroots” donors in the style of a politician such as Bernie Sanders. Instead, its primary bankrollers are a coterie of well-heeled organizations with deep ties to the national Democratic Party, such as the pro-Hillary Clinton super PAC Priorities USA Action.

These groups, in turn, are funded in large part by wealthy, white men. Liberal, “dark money” nonprofit groups that don’t publicly disclose the identities of their own contributors are also among BlackPAC’s bankrollers.

Which leaves some to wonder: Is BlackPAC little more than a convenient rent-a-group for wealthy Democratic interests struggling to connect with black voters in a post-Barack Obama political era?

BlackPAC’s executive director, Adrianne Shropshire, said an upstart group such as hers can’t achieve its activist goals without a significant infusion of cash....

https://www.publicintegrity.org/2018/03/12/21558/super-pac-has-raised-millions-mobilize-black-voters-does-it-matter-its-funders-are

BlackPAC is funded by white liberals but so was the NAACP. In fact, too many white people were in positions of power in the early days, but that was unavoidable in 1909.

And if you know even a little bit of the history of the NAACP, white liberals being involved in black bids for social equality and political power is never problem free. But there is no debate about the fact that the NAACP has been a critical part of our history and a critical part of black progress. 

We just have to watch black run organizations whose steam is being provided by white donors. That's just a given.

Due to white supremacy the black community doesn't always have enough grassroots black dollars to fund these kinds of things on its own. And then there's the simple fact that a lot of black people despair of the political process altogether. 

And that political despair is a major factor in the Orange Sociopath-In-Chief becoming president. Yeah, I know 63% of white men and 53% of white women voted Trump into office, with 81% of mostly white Christians in the mix there too. 

But I always knew we, as black and brown people, were going to have to jump over them with only 1/3rd of white people behind us.  And we had the 1/3rd in 2016. 

We have to jump over the majority of white people in this country. It's that simple. Liking or not liking whoever is on top of the ticket doesn't matter sometimes. In 2016, Hillary Clinton should have been seen as a white weather vane running against a staunch white supremacist Donald Trump.

As for Bernie Sanders? He's a white supremacy enabler.  He and Trump both appealed to the same set of white people during the primaries (look at political maps and check the counties each of them won- in CA and NY they were the same.) 

I don't care if I do agree more strongly with Bernie's financial policies etc -- all he really cares about is how the money is rearranged.  And he is so obsessed with rearranging the capitalism (which I agree with 90%) that he, just like Trump, was willing to provide cover for Trumpthuglican voters. Sanders defended Trumpthuglican voters as "angsty white working class" when it was obvious (to black and brown people) before three or four studies that- 

1) the issues that put Trump over the top were his white supremacist talking points. Trump's popularity increased every time he said or implied *Mexicans are rapists*  and *Muslim Ban* and *Black Lives Matter folks are ungrateful n-words*  

2)  the term "working class" has a definition and a bunch of Trump voters don't meet that definition.

As for Hillary and her "super predator" comment? Nothing about that surprised me. 

The thing that does surprise me is that black people actually think that she deviates from 99% of white liberals. In that moment in time in the 1990s, when she made that statement, it was a popular opinion among white people and some black folks too.  

If you don't believe me, try to find all the white politicians who called her out on that statement. Half the white people in Congress right now are pushing 70 and 80 years of age. A bunch of them were holding office somewhere at the time of the "super predator" comment. 

Try to find Bernie Sanders objection to the comment. I'll wait. I won't hold my breathe because I don't like passing out for the hell of it. 

We have to out vote white people.  And sometimes we have to vote for white people who are not honorary black people  That means we have to know who our friends are (R.I.P. Anthony Bourdain) ; who the weathervanes are (Hillary Clinton); and who the white supremacist dragons are (The Orange Sociopath-In-Chief).   

So read up on BlackPAC and decide if you want to get involved in the political process through them or find another African American political group to get involved through. But make a choice and follow through. 

CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTERGRITY ON BlackPAC- 
https://www.publicintegrity.org/2018/03/12/21558/super-pac-has-raised-millions-mobilize-black-voters-does-it-matter-its-funders-are

BlackPAC website
http://www.blackpac.com/

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