From Robert Johnson’s mouth to God’s ear. If BLM would form their own political party with it’s own candidates, it would rob the Democrats of a lot of votes. True, they may only get 5 or 6% of the vote, but that would be enough to cost them a lot of elections from local ones to presidential ones. The Democratic party might never recover from such a loss. Especially when you consider that Democrats put all their time and effort into investigating Trump instead of doing their job.
Blacks especially can see the Democrats only worry about their votes and don’t care a thing about their lives. Other members of the Black community have been abandoning the Democratic party because President Trump has delivered on the promises Democrats have made for decades. The Democrats have always depended on getting 93% of the Black vote. It has carried them election after election. .
BET founder Robert Johnson is calling on the Black Lives Matter movement to form an independent political party. “I think it’s time that African Americans form an independent party, not be an appendage of one party or ignored by the other party.” pic.twitter.com/WBIyfbxAVx
— CNBC (@CNBC) June 23, 2020
Johnson wrote:
I am writing to you with a suggestion that Black Lives Matter (BLM) consider establishing a formal independent political party. The party could be founded on the principle articulated by the founding members of the Congressional Black Caucus in 1971. That formative principle stated, “Black people have no permanent friends, no permanent enemies.…just permanent interests.” The effort to create an independent Black party, created specifically to address Black issues, is not a new idea among Black people. There are many people, both Black and white who believe that independent parties can make a significant contribution to the current political system as to how this nation of 300 million diverse citizens can be governed in the best interest of all Americans. Many pundits will try to convince you that it is impossible for independent parties to exist in this country. They will argue that the American people seem to be satisfied with just two choices. To the contrary, I believe a politically astute and structured Black independent party, committed and engaged in the electoral process, can prove them wrong.
I should point out that even if every Black person in America voted for the BLM candidate, they would get just 12% of the vote nationwide. It might swing House elections and throw white Democrats out of office but that could be a good thing both for Blacks and for the country.