Shaun KingVerified account

I have several things to say this morning and they don't all fit neatly into one article so I'm just going to put it all out here right now because some key decisions are being made and people are being told to shut up and keep their thoughts & input to themselves. Never that.

It is disturbing to me that in 2018 the Democratic Party has NEVER had a Black woman in a leadership role in Congress. Black women are the lifeblood of the party. It's a sin. And the new incoming Democratic majority MUST fix this. PERIOD. NO EXCUSES.

In 2017, I literally had to shame the Democratic Party into admitting that they had virtually no Black senior staffers in the Senate and that the only reason they wouldn't release their diversity data (that they required others to submit) was because it was do dismal.

Some of the truest words Frederick Douglass ever spoke were, "Power concedes nothing without a demand." And sadly, we must demand that the Democratic Party do right by us because that is not their natural inclination. It just isn't.

What I saw across the country this past Tuesday was bold progressives, particularly bold women of color, but also progressive Black men - get elected nationwide in places where that had never happened before. It's time the leadership of the Democratic Party look like its voters