I think there’s actually a kernel of truth in what Symone Sanders says here, reported by RealClearPolitics:
Symone Sanders, former spokeswoman for the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign, appeared on CNN Wednesday afternoon to weigh in on the future of the DNC and the Democratic party. Sanders dismissed the idea of Howard Dean returning as DNC chairman commenting, “we don’t need white people leading the Democratic party right now.”
“Howard Dean is also on record maligning young people and millennials. Telling those Bernie folks they just need to get in line and maligning Bernie Sanders. And that is not what we need,” Sanders said about the former party chairman.
“In my opinion we don’t need white people leading the Democratic party right now,” Sanders said. “The Democratic party is diverse, and it should be reflected as so in leadership and throughout the staff, at the highest levels. From the vice chairs to the secretaries all the way down to the people working in the offices at the DNC.”
The voting base of the Democratic Party is just about half black. About a quarter of Democratic members of the House are black and only one senator. If the party’s diversity is to be anything but a cynical charade, there should be more black members of the House and at least ten Senate Democrats should be black.
Possibly time left for an executive order to Mandate That.
Reminds me of a case working its way thru, in brief, black democrats allege that in creating majority black districts, the legislature kept white democrats from being elected and thusly, the black democrats have suffered discrimination.
That aside, who is willing to step aside and how is Alcee Hastings kept away from vital information and secrets.
I think too few people understand the objectives of redistricting. In general they are to concentrate party, ethnic, and racial minorities within gerrymandered districts, protecting incumbents and maximizing majority party control.
lets not forget the consequences of 1 man,1 vote court decisions and the voting rights act which require racial/ethnic gerrymandering.