Black community vote.

Introduction:

Hello. As you can imagine, we are representing the black community. We have a story in both major political parties of the country but today we want to tell you which one we are supporting.

In a first time, we are going to present quickly to 2 main parties. Then, we will show you which party we supported in the History. And finally we are going to see our political affiliations today for the elections.

I. Political parties

American political parties are more free organized than in other countries. There are two party systems: the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. These two parties have won every US presidential election since 1852. The Democratic Party generally positions itself as left-of-center in American politics and supports a modern American liberal platform, while the Republican Party generally positions itself as right-of-center and supports a modern American conservative platform. Hillary Clinton represents the Democratic Party and Donald Trump represents the republican one.

II. Our political history

After the Civil War almost all Blacks considered them-selves Republicans. African Americans were not even allowed to officially attend the Democratic convention until 1924.

Things began to change during the “Great Depression” of the 1930s with Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal. This persuaded 71% of African Americans to vote for a Democrat for president. In 1948 Democrat Harry Truman helped the integration of black people in the army to have more votes from the black community for the election later that year. During this time 56% of African Americans were now Democrats.

The association of civil rights legislation with John F Kennedy and Lyndon Banes Jonson solidified Black loyalty to the Democratic Party for good. JFK proposed and LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which outlawed public discrimination. LBJ had 94% of the black vote that year, which was a record until 2008.

By this time the majority of Blacks had become Democrats. By 2012 only 16% of African Americans considered themselves Republicans. Over the last 40 years Black Americans have consistently voted overwhelmingly for the Democratic presidential candidate.

III. The 2016 American elections

Concerning the presidential elections of today, the 8th of November 2016, facing the Republican, Donald Trump, and the Democratic, Hillary Clinton, Mr Obama is worried…Indeed, he has made an urgent plea to the African-American community to fill their duty of American citizens and to go out to vote for the right running candidate, that he supports: Hillary Clinton. Otherwise the actual president assures that Donald Trump would “reverse every single thing that we’ve done” in the past eight years; and that “the African-American vote right now is not as solid as it needs to be”.

Like the numbers show: in 2008, the proportion of the black community voters exceeded the white community ones for the first time, we’ve seen the same phenomena in 2012. Moreover, in 2008, the young voters were in majority African-Americans and Afro-Americans women voted in higher proportion than any other community.

Many Afro-Americans say they see Donald Trump as racist, and this community is one of the principal pillars of Clinton’s strategy to win. That’s why she focuses on different states where the proportion of the black community is quite high, like Florida or Ohio (with 15 to 20% of self reported as African-American in 2010), and North Carolina (with 20 to 25%). She showed a support to them, while Donald trump didn’t do it at all. But the fact that Hillary Clinton might become the next president of the United-States doesn’t please them either. Some are worried about the new politic of their country. Those voters will elect with way much less excitement and fervour than four or eight years ago with Barack Obama.

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