OPINION | The midterms addressed a lingering question in the Black community since the Obama presidency: what political goals should its leaders pursue?
Meanwhile, Alabama and Arkansas fielded Black Democratic candidates for Senate and governor with disappointing results: In Alabama, William Boyd and Yolanda Flowers were blown out, respectively. In Arkansas, Natalie James and Chris Jones lost as well. And in Florida, Rep. Val Demings’ conceded to the two-term incumbent Sen. Marco Rubio. Likewise, in Louisiana, Democrat Gary Chambers was smashed by the incumbent Republican Senator John Kennedy.
Black Democrats showed signs of progress in North Carolina but will have to recalibrate in other states. It may require a prolonged reliance on the old and frustrating pattern of backing moderate white men—a model that propelled Jimmy Carter in Georgia and Bill Clinton in Arkansas. In North Carolina, it’s the current Gov. Roy Cooper.
. He initiated an alliance with radical groups that crossed lines of race and ethnicity, and was dubbed the Rainbow Coalition.“Rainbow Coalition” While a strength of the model is its multicultural diversity, that has been a weakness as well. Every election cycle, pundits tend to overstate the monolithic nature of groups in rainbow coalitions.
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