Look in your mind at any large city. That’s not it, is it?
What happened? All those people have been voting for Democrats since the 60’s, at least.
And I will comment that I’m personally not aware of any blatantly racist Republican figures. Most of them are more like Barry Goldwater, who helped cofound the Arizona NAACP (if memory serves).
Racists are people like Woodrow Wilson, who resegregated the Federal government after either Taft or Roosevelt (Teddy, the smart one) desegregated it. And he screened “Birth of a Nation” at the White House. Or FDR, who worked to make sure all government work went only to union contractors, nearly all of whom did not allow blacks as members. THAT is systemic racism.
But that is not, and never has been, how Republicans roll.
We get a bad reputation–well, allow ourselves to be the victims of successful propaganda offensives–because we are not telling them, each and every election, that voting for us is practically like a guaranteed winning lottery ticket. We say “we want all people to succeed” because we actually want all people to succeed, blacks among them.
The Winning Lottery Ticket people are Democrats. They run pretty much all major ghettos/slums in the country, and have for some time.
And I will comment too that the Democrats really only need the blacks for one more major national election. If they can win the White House and Congress, then they can legalize everyone here illegally, vote them tons of benefits, and count on their votes for at least a decade. At least until the system crashes, and even the former illegals realize they got screwed too.
But all that will fuck the poor black community completely. And it seems to be the plan.