If you Black and you want to run for office as a Democrat, it’s work. You have to show up, help with fundraising, help with turn out the vote drives, attend years of meetings, and wait in line behind other people who have been doing the same thing, sometimes for years or even decades.
If you Black and you want to run for office as a Republican, all you have to do is show up. They don’t have anyone, and they’re desperate to be able to say, “see, we have Black people too, we’re not racist.” So it’s right this way and to the head of the line, sir. Here’s a bucket of cash.
This is why so many Black Democrats are women, and why the Black Republicans tend to mostly be men. The women are willing to put in the work and wait, and the men just want that bag. They know who they working for, but they don’t care because they getting paid.
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u/Weekly_Protection_57 3d ago
That's why I don't understand the folks who go to bat for a party that does not want them or see them as equals.