Black lives and black issues have gotten a lot of exposure during the Democratic presidential primary, but as author Steve Phillips points out in The Nation magazine, black people have largely been shutoff from the flow of political cash that Democrats shower grassroots organizations with to get out the vote. In a characteristically epic rant, NewsOne Now host and award-winning journalist Roland Martin called out the Democratic Party for treating black voters like “political sharecroppers… tilling the field, but not wanting to pay.”
Martin also criticized President Obama for not doing more to improve black political infrastructure:
Roland Martin Rips Democrats a New One For Ignoring Black Voters: ‘I Am Not a Slave!’
Roland Martin Democrats ignoring black voters… by DailyPolitics
