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Unseen Middle-Class Black Voters Move Right

10 30
yesterday

Barbara Clark is the perfect example of a voter, whether Black, white, Hispanic or from any other ethnic group, who defies stereotypes. This defiance often leads to voters such as her being overlooked as people who could change not just the presidential election but also the majority in the Senate.

Clark is a Black female who has been a registered Democrat for almost all of her adult life and voted for former President Barack Obama twice.

"Dear, I didn't just vote for him," she said. "I was a community organizer for Barack Obama for the group ACORN."

The acronym stands for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, a 501(c)(4) left-wing voter registration organization that closed its doors in 2010.

Clark, 67, admitted she did not know politics all that well before getting involved with Obama.

"I knew you voted. But really, studying and doing all of that, I didn't know. I just took the slate card and voted Democrat," she said.

She was inspired by Obama's candidacy, though, and stepped up her game and got involved. However, Clark said once he was elected and governing, she found herself wondering why she was not seeing improvements in her community and in her life in the way he promised.

"After we got Obama in the first time, and nothing happened, nothing changed, I said, whoa, what's going on? And the local Democrats told me, 'They won't let him,'" Clark explained.

"My answer to them was I said, well, he got to step up and say, I'm the president. But nothing changed in our community," she added.

Clark said she grew up in an all-Black neighborhood with families, such as hers, that made her do her chores before she was allowed to play in the summer. Once set free, though, "You went to the park and swimming," she said. "You played with the neighbors. You could play all day outside. We grew up, a pool was right across the street from us."

"And people looked out after us," she said of her childhood, which........

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