I definitely see your point when it comes to the Democratic party and its "using" of its black support base without doing all that much in return. However, given the refusal of so much of the GOP to join the rest of us in the 21st century [[or even the 20th), I don't foresee the majority of black voters positioning themselves between the Dems and the Repubs - or anywhere near the current GOP at all - in the near future. A more likely outcome, I think, is for African-Americans to better organize as a semi-outside pressure group on the Democratic establishment, much like the evangelicals, the Tea Party, and other groups have done under the Republican umbrella.
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