ST Alpha - "To be clear though, the concept of defunding the police is actually not popular among the African-American community as a whole. And even in the city" (Reading a Post)

SlickerTalk
Search Archives
The Leaderboard
The FAQ

Down to Post

Backboards:

Posts: 157

In response to "see my other message. i'll back that message because the people actually getting hurt by police do. black lives matter was a dumb slogan 5 years ago" by colin 🤏

To be clear though, the concept of defunding the police is actually not popular among the African-American community as a whole. And even in the city

Posted by pmb (aka pmb) Nov 20 '20, 09:13

neighborhoods where these issues are most prevalent, it is not a winning argument. It's popular among younger, more progressive African-Americans. It is not among older African-Americans. Note that Biden actually did worse in the AA community than Hilary did.

Responses:

absolutely. it is not. but it also was not a Dem slogan. to blame on the ground protesters for Dem losses is pointless and offensive. - colin 🤏 Nov 20, 09:16 3
- The problem is that the slogan gets attributed to all dems regardless of whether they run on it. And it's a bad look to have to run against a vocal - pmb Nov 20, 09:20 2
  - Dems have shown unwillingness to work with on the ground activists to even try to do this. Spanburger didn't reach out once to the local - colin 🤏 Nov 20, 09:21 1
    - They do need to do this, but the activists need to be more sensitive to the messaging and less demanding about defending it. They are hurting their - pmb Nov 20, 09:26

Post a message top

To be clear though, the concept of defunding the police is actually not popular among the African-American community as a whole. And even in the city

Replies are disabled on threads older than 7 days.