It was disappointing to hear U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds sound like a Dixiecrat, seemingly extolling the virtues of the Jim Crow era. Nothing was better during Jim Crow. Nothing. Donalds should know that.
Congressmen Byron Donalds and Wesley Hunt toast their drinks during Congress, Cognac and Cigars at The Cigar Code in Philadelphia on Tuesday.But that’s not all Donalds said about Jim Crow that night. “During Jim Crow, more Black people were not just conservative — because Black people have always been conservative-minded — but more Black people voted conservatively.”
It was disappointing to hear Donalds sound like a Dixiecrat repeating an old trope about the rise of so many female-headed households. I walked in Tuesday night with my head on a swivel, uncertain about what to expect. The room was filled mainly with well-dressed Black men — a demographic that theand why the Democratic Party has such strong a hold on the Black community. U.S. Rep. Wesley Hunt responded, “That is the question that we have to answer every single day as being free thinkers that are Black men.” his 70-something parents who had met at Southern University and A&M College, an HBCU in Baton Rouge, La.
But then Hunt grabbed the wheel of the car and veered it off the road, “We were better off under Republicans than we were under Democrats but the reason why the Democrats have a hold on the Black community is because our parents’ parents’ parents keep telling us, ‘You’ve got to vote Democrat. You’ve got to vote Democrat,’” he said. “But it’s up to us and this generation to say, ‘Well why?’”
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