Los Angeles Times columnist LZ Granderson blasted Democrats for pledging to appoint Black women to office and said they should be working to get them on the ballot.
blasted Democrats who pledge to appoint Black women to score political points with the public, scorning this maneuver as a"manipulative" electoral"quid pro quo" that makes these women look"unqualified to earn their place."
"But can Democratic men now stop pledging to pick Black women as though they’re a charity in need of matching contributions? Black women have never needed an electoral quid pro quo — a ‘vote for me and I’ll appoint one’ sort of thing," he wrote in an LA Times Instead of appointments, he argued the Democratic Party needed to do more work getting these women on the ballot.
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