Candidates of color raise concern over depleting
diversity in the Democratic presidential field
ABC News,
by
Armando Garcia
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
12/8/2019 8:50:18 AM
Shortly after California Sen. Kamala Harris announced she was ending her presidential bid, the question of depleting diversity in the Democratic field became a rallying point for several of the remaining minority candidates in their own campaigns. New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker in an impassioned speech on Thursday blasted the influence of money in politics as one of the reasons she dropped out. (Snip) However, several minority presidential candidates have complained that the structure of the Democratic National Committee's polling and fundraising rules to qualify for debates unduly makes it difficult to get the coveted primetime spots on stage needed
Reply 1 - Posted by:
MOBeef4u 12/8/2019 8:56:59 AM (No. 256187)
Because it’s so not racist to vote for someone based solely on his/her skin color. Oh, wait, we’ve already been down that road.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 12/8/2019 8:58:46 AM (No. 256189)
The goal of the party primary is to eliminate diversity, i.e. end up with one candidate.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
mobyclik 12/8/2019 9:00:52 AM (No. 256192)
Just goes to prove that Democrats are RACISSSSST!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
earlybird 12/8/2019 9:02:33 AM (No. 256194)
If they could ever get over their attitude that they are not a part of our country - that they are a separate population - they might feel better. Those elected to office are supposed to represent everyone, regardless of color. The blacks have been the worst at pulling that off as they constantly set themselves against the white people.
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I personally couldn't finish this drivel. Did Armando ever get around to blaming Republicans or did he just continue whining?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
ROLFNader 12/8/2019 9:05:12 AM (No. 256198)
Barkey Hussein's legacy. Can't say we didn't see THAT coming. Something about melanin and socialism that starts alarms ….
Get used to it. It could take decades to repair .
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 12/8/2019 9:06:34 AM (No. 256201)
Live by skin color, die by skin color.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
seamusm 12/8/2019 9:13:26 AM (No. 256209)
I can see it now. "Vote for ME! I'm the last black running!". Yeah, that's a great rallying cry to voters.
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White liberals are apparently as "racist" as those Republican neanderthals.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Old Army Vet 12/8/2019 9:27:22 AM (No. 256223)
So I guess the latest for picking a Presidential candidate is affirmative action?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 12/8/2019 9:39:10 AM (No. 256234)
Today's Democrat party is run, and funded, by Progressives.
Progressives tend to be upper-income and WHITE college-educated.
Hope the GOP uses this type of concern from Cory Booker and others, to illustrate who really runs the Democrat party.
Possibly helps explain why President Trump's approval rating among African-Americans is around 30% now, which must be of major concern to Dem party leaders who can't count on 90% vote any longer.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
marbles 12/8/2019 9:42:37 AM (No. 256238)
Only racists dwell on race.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
snakeoil 12/8/2019 9:44:27 AM (No. 256242)
Don't know about blacks and women but they are overstocked with idiots. Farticus is so desperate he hired a woman to pretend to be his girlfriend. Horizontal Kamala's problem was not a lack of money but a lack of principles. Good riddance.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
lakerman1 12/8/2019 9:45:54 AM (No. 256245)
The logic is illogical, but beautiful for candidates of color, since it can always be used at any level by any failed candidate of color.
(Will Cherokee Lizzie use it as a complaint, when she fades to oblivion?)
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Socio 12/8/2019 9:46:46 AM (No. 256246)
Not my idea but a great one:
The DNC needs to create a socialized campaign structure where all money to be spent on political campaigning goes into a shared account and each Democrat politician gets equal share from that account, this way the billionaire candidates have to pay for everyone else.
Anyone with connections to the DNC Chair please forward this idea!
I want to see the looks on Bloomberg's and Steyer's faces when they are told they must give up 3/4th's of what they spend campaigning to other candidates so they can compete with them.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 12/8/2019 9:46:48 AM (No. 256247)
If Martin Luther King had stood on his head - -
- - he may have said - - "Judge me by the color of my skin - - not by the content of my character."
But - - unfortunately for Booger and all the other race hustlers - - King was upright - - and he said the opposite of what they're saying. Hey, Booger - - you'll feel a whole lot better - - about everything - - if you just come out of that closet.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Strike3 12/8/2019 9:56:58 AM (No. 256262)
Life is so unfair. That's why the Obamas are sitting in their living room and looking out at a long private beach and I'm not.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
tsquare 12/8/2019 10:09:15 AM (No. 256276)
This very long campaign of diversity and inclusion has been successful in keeping alive the aspirations of marginal candidates and keeping afloat a miasma of disjointed proposals
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Laotzu 12/8/2019 10:13:33 AM (No. 256280)
It certainly is an interesting question, isn't it. The Dems-of-Color have to be asking themselves -- "I've done the same non-productive, divisive and destructive community organizing and propagandizing as the sans-color Dems. Why don't I get a seat at the adults table? When a tanned nobody in Mom jeans who's never held a job and has all the athletic ability of PeeWee Herman gets to be President, why don't I?"
I don't have an answer, but it really is an interesting question, isn't it? Why don't Democrats like American Af-Ams?
A few possible answers:
1. The Democrat Party has always hated you. You're just figuring that out.
2. They don't need to show you any love because you'll sleep with them anyway.
3. The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise, like the mafia. Producers rise to the top levels of the organization. You're not producers. You're takers, not makers. Show some innovative thinking of how to bleed more money from government for Progressive NGOs and non-profits, and you might get a promotion.
4. Learn how to speak like a Californian. O did it. You can too.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
earlybird 12/8/2019 10:35:27 AM (No. 256295)
Re #17, here’s where their new “private beach” is:
Average Weather in Edgartown Massachusetts, United States
In Edgartown, the summers are warm, humid, and windy; the winters are very cold, wet, and extremely windy; and it is partly cloudy year round. Over the course of the year, the temperature typically varies from 25°F to 78°F and is rarely below 11°F or above 84°F.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
fayebeck 12/8/2019 10:45:04 AM (No. 256304)
Sounds to me that forcing a "person of color" to run to all offices is the " logical" solution to this "problem".
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
red1066 12/8/2019 10:45:34 AM (No. 256305)
RIGHT. As if they color of one's skin or sex is the determining factor when deciding how to cast one's vote. Never mind their political views. There is ample evidence of how this works out. Take a look at how Baltimore has faired over the last five or six years.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
bighambone 12/8/2019 11:30:32 AM (No. 256331)
Their concerns are unfounded, as Barack Obama, who is the leader of the leftist and liberal Democrat Party today will see to it that an African-American, most probably Obama’s friend Deval Patrick will be on the Democrat ticket.
That is especially true since President Trump is currently polling with about one third of African-Americans supporting Trump, as with that percentage or more of African-American votes going to Trump the Democrats cannot win the General Election next year.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 12/8/2019 11:36:55 AM (No. 256338)
Not sure Kamala would have gotten the nomination unless she accepted a black man as her VP. She has already been hammered by leftist activists on her white husband. She is a nasty, incompetent and ignorant woman who has no business being the president. Leaving an exonerated man to rot in prison for two years during her pre senate career makes my point.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
DVC 12/8/2019 11:52:38 AM (No. 256360)
I believe some guy said:
"We should judge people by the content of their character, not the color of their skin."
I wonder who that was? Probably nobody that was important.
/s off
Reversed racism is all OK now.
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Lieawatha is "of color"
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
cor-vet 12/8/2019 1:42:36 PM (No. 256462)
The most racist thing I see, is the clip of Americas chief race-baiter, Tawana Sharpton, complaing that when blacks look at the debate stage they don't see themselves up there, it's all old white guys. It doesn't matter what policies a candidate has, to Sharpie, skin color is ALL that matters.
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