The lede identifies the source of this political…confusion.
The Supreme Court’s decision to reinstate Alabama’s congressional map has split the political future for many Black Democratic voters.
Black Democratic voters. Not American voters favoring the Democratic Party who happen to be black.
And this:
In Montgomery, Democrats believe they still have a shot at keeping their seat….
Their seat. No. As Scott Brown nearly put it a few years ago, with all due respect, it’s not the black voters’ seat, it’s the voters’ seat. Nor is very much respect at all due the racist trope that the seat belongs to black voters exclusively.
Maybe these Progressive-Democrats should consider no longer running on their race, and instead run on their Party’s domestic, foreign, and economic policies instead. The rest of us, along with our courts (finally), have figured out that the critical opening phrases of our Declaration of Independence and the opening Article of the 14th Amendment to our Constitution really do mean what they say.