Pelosi is useless, but shouldn't Hoyer & Clyburn be replaced too?

[Kamala]

Tim Ryan, Linda Sanchez, and Terri Sewell would be a good team.

[Kamala]

Bustos, Ryan, and Demings would be my preferred lineup.

Isn't Demings a freshman congresswoman? If you want a Southern black woman, Terri Sewell is great.

[Kamala]

I think any Dem leadership team needs at least:
- a woman
- a (preferably rural or Rust Belt) Midwesterner
- an African-American

Cheri Bustos, for example, fulfills two roles.

[Kamala]

I think any Dem leadership team needs at least:
- a woman
- a (preferably rural or Rust Belt) Midwesterner
- an African-American

Cheri Bustos, for example, fulfills two roles.

That kind of racist identity politics is going to make Congress red for a long time, incarcerating more blacks, suppressing their votes & will pose more abortion restrictions on women, etc. The last thing people want is for the white vote to be as anywhere near polarized as the South !

What are you on about? African-Americans represent a large part of the Democratic base and coalition. It's important that their voices and interests are represented in the leadership as well.

[Kamala]

Great strawman, Shadows. I totally said we need to pull some random black person off the street and make him part of the leadership. Yup.

I don't understand why you're so vehemently opposed to African-Americans being represented in Democratic leadership, especially when there are so many talented and passionate black Representatives, such as Terri Sewell, Harlem Jeffries, Cedric Richmond, G.K. Butterfield, Bobby Scott, and freshmen like Val Demings and Lisa Rochester. If you really think that there aren't any qualified African American representatives, I don't know what to tell you.

This is as much "tokenism" as putting someone like Tim Ryan as Minority Leader - after all, if we're advocating for the same causes, why do we need a token WWC as part of our leadership?