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## ## ## ## Underneath the surface, many Black folks are feeling dissatisfied


with the Democratic Party. They are discontent because they’ve been loyal to a party that often makes them feel undervalued. For many Black Florida Democrats, it felt like a slap in the face that it took Florida Democratic National Committee member John Parker months to apologize for using the phrase “colored people” after a Party meeting in January. Parker resigned his post on Wednesday, but only under pressure, Politico reported.


With the 2018 midterm elections looming, the massive Democratic


victories expected could fizzle if the party continues to neglect Black voters. In another case that should alarm the party, Missouri’s Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill, who is White, has come under heavy criticism back home from African-American constituents who are angry because they feel she’s taking them for granted.


Cynthia Nixon, the actress who is running as a Democrat for governor


of New York, warned specifically about party leaders neglecting African- American women.


Black women “will stop showing up for the Democratic Party if the


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Democratic Party doesn’t start showing up for them,” said Nixon, who is White, Wednesday on the Wendy Williams Show.


Indeed, Black women were instrumental in sweeping Democrats into


office in recent key elections in Alabama and Virginia. Exit polls showed that 98 percent of Black women who voted in the Alabama’s special Senate election cast their ballot for Doug Jones.


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