Our system is based on 2 parties. The Democratic Party really cannot be a single party that is simultaneously trying to represent large corporations and wealthy interests vs the 99% and the environment. Yeah, they are being progressive and doing grass-root canvassing and maybe they will get a better rounded interest and cross-section of America interested. Like I said, I believe the Republican Party is about dead.. Donald is just pulling back the reality of what that party does in fact stand for. He just says it all out loud and without using dog whistles. So, a small party trying to gain some legitimacy within the black community is important. Often, Democrats and even black officials seem to think of environmental issues as a "white privilege" item because many in the black community are just fighting to survive economically. But they do have a stake in "environmental issues". Locally within their communities they are more likely to experience "pollution dumping". In the past, there was govt housing with lead paint that they had to fight tooth and nail to rid their homes of (Obama actually helped organize this). AND with global warming/ climate change, everyone is going to be feeling the effects to extreme weather (look at who was effected by Hurricane Katrina the most), to instability in the prices of different goods, to eventually issues in moving costs because of sea level rise. It effects them, plus the transition to "green energy jobs", building sea walls, installing solar, creating modern public transit, modern sewer/ water systems, upgrading buildings to withstand climactic weather changes, means jobs!!! Jobs that cannot be shipped over seas. Jobs that can put youth and high unemployment areas back to work.
Does it make sense to do outreach? It may look optically odd, but what if the black community left the Dem Party and really placed a stamp on the Green Party. How often do you hear from different black people, especially the youth, that they have no business in the racist party, but the Dems use them to vote and forget about all their needs 5 seconds after the vote, and that's if their vote even is counted. I see very little work being done by big name politicians about the disenfranchisement of minority voters in this country. Every other year, like clockwork, southern FL "experiences issues with the minority voting".. Well, news for everyone, the majority of south FL is actually minority.
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