Of course, I forgot that the Clintons are Democrats!
https://www.quora.com/Has-the-situa...s-If-not-why-do-blacks-keep-voting-Democratic
There are two reasons why African Americans overwhelmingly vote for the Democratic Party:
First, the National Democratic Party has improved conditions for African Americans.
Second, starting with Richard Nixon in the 1960s, the Republican Party used the issue of race to attract Southern voters.
Whether it was integrating the military (
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/ann...), the Supreme Court holding in Brown v Board of Education (8 of the 9 Justices in that unanimous holding were appointed by Democratic Presidents;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bro... , List of Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States),
the enactment of John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson's 1964 Civil Rights Act (recall that the GOP nominated one of the few Senators who voted against it for President that same year, Barry Goldwater),
the enactment of the Voting Rights Act (every Supreme Court Justice who voted to eviscerate this law was appointed by a Republican;
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/2..., down to the Affordable Care Act (which made it illegal for insurance companies to discriminate against persons with sickle cell anemia as a preexisting condition;
http://sicklecell-ourvoice.blogs...), the national Democratic Party has assiduously pursued and protected the interests of the African American community.
Today most Republicans argue that the best government is one that is both small and local. But history has shown it was the large central government which protected the rights of African Americans when local communities refused to register Black voters, integrate schools, or prosecute police for brutal practices against members of the African American community. True, many of those local politicians were Democrats, but it was the national government under Democrats AND Republicans which pursued justice. And now while Democrats continue to support the national government's role, Republicans prefer local control.
On issues such as raising the minimum wage, maintaining stem cell research funding, creating tuition-free community colleges, and repealing voter ID laws, the Democratic Party has taken stands that resonate in the African American community.
Most of the significant firsts for African Americans came under Presidents who were Democrats. The first Black General in the US Army (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben....), the first Black Cabinet member (
http://www.history.com/this-day-...), the first Black Supreme Court Justice (
http://www.biography.com/people/...), the first Black female on the federal bench (
http://www.biography.com/people/...), the first Black Attorney General (
http://www.biography.com/people/...) -- all of these occurred under Democratic Administrations.
The first President to speak before the NAACP was a Democrat (
https://books.google.com/books?i...).
Consider the first Black congresswoman (
http://www.biography.com/people/...),
the first Black female senator (
http://www.biography.com/people/...),
and all three African Americans Governors who served since Reconstruction. They were all Democrats.
http://www.biography.com/people/...
http://www.biography.com/people/...
http://www.biography.com/people/...
And then there's Barack Obama.
But there's something else that shouldn't be forgotten. Starting with Richard Nixon in the 1960s, Republican leaders used race to attract Southern white votes. This is not my claim. Nor is it the claim of some Democratic partisan. Two former national chairmen of the Republican Party acknowledge that their party used a "Southern Strategy" to attract racist white votes, and it worked.
RNC Chief to Say It Was 'Wrong' to Exploit Racial Conflict for Votes
Michael Steele: For Decades GOP Pursued 'Southern Strategy' That Alienated Minorities
African Americans have seen their rights preserved and expanded under Democratic Presidencies. And so in every Presidential election since Kennedy-Nixon, African Americans have preferred the Democratic Presidential candidate over the Republican opponent.