It’s wild that whenever I read an article about low black voter turnout, it *never* mentions the census study stating that 40% of black nonvoters either weren’t interested or didn’t like the candidates or their issues in 2016. About 7% of the answers related to voter suppression

It’s almost like focusing exclusively on GOP malfeasance, Russia and facebook absolves the Democratic party from actually addressing black people’s conditions and concerns.

I wrote about it here a lil over a year ago. And yes I randomly woke up this morning thinking about it. https://theintercept.com/2019/03/10/hillary-clinton-bloody-sunday-speech-selma/

This is about the reasons *why* we may not vote, not merely our voting averages. In 2016, 21% of black nonvoters said they didn't vote bc they disliked the candidates or their issues: *6 times higher* than 2000 (3.5%) & over 3 times higher than 2004 (6.6%) https://twitter.com/BreyVanDeKamp/status/1253741113883713548?s=20

My point is not "Democrats=bad/everyone sucks" it's "party leaders who promote centrism when our people are experiencing extreme social & economic problems cannot be surprised when we don't vote for candidates who have either exacerbated or been unresponsive to those problems"