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*Mayor [[Pete Buttigieg]] was criticized by [[David Axelrod]],<ref>https://twitter.com/davidaxelrod/status/1117492201364176896?lang=en</ref> [[Marcia Fudge]], ''[[Politico]]'',<ref>https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/06/pete-buttigieg-2020-black-voters-1307358</ref> ''The Daily Beast'' and others for having a "black problem."<ref>https://www.thedailybeast.com/pete-buttigieg-has-a-black-problem-top-african-american-leaders-say-he-is-naive-on-race?source=twitter&via=desktop</ref> Buttigieg attempted a "Sister Soulja moment" when he left off the 2020 campaign trail to deal with a police shooting in his hometown, telling an emotional crowd of [[Black Lives Matter]] activists, "I'm not asking for your vote."<ref>https://youtu.be/ZhlJntrzrD8</ref> A Sister Soulja moment in liberal parkance is defined as
*Mayor [[Pete Buttigieg]] was criticized by [[David Axelrod]],<ref>https://twitter.com/davidaxelrod/status/1117492201364176896?lang=en</ref> [[Marcia Fudge]], ''[[Politico]]'',<ref>https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/06/pete-buttigieg-2020-black-voters-1307358</ref> ''The Daily Beast'' and others for having a "black problem."<ref>https://www.thedailybeast.com/pete-buttigieg-has-a-black-problem-top-african-american-leaders-say-he-is-naive-on-race?source=twitter&via=desktop</ref> Buttigieg attempted a "Sister Soulja moment" when he left off the 2020 campaign trail to deal with a police shooting in his hometown, telling an emotional crowd of [[Black Lives Matter]] activists, "I'm not asking for your vote."<ref>https://youtu.be/ZhlJntrzrD8</ref> A Sister Soulja moment in liberal parkance is defined as
::''"a key moment when the candidate takes what at least appears to be a bold stand against certain extremes in their party" and as "a calculated denunciation of an extremist position or special interest group." Such an act of repudiation is designed to signal to [[centrist]] voters that the politician is not beholden to traditional, and sometimes unpopular, interest groups associated with the party."''<ref name=BG>{{cite web|work=[[The Boston Globe]]|title=Sister Souljah moments|first=Joan|last=Vennochi|date=September 16, 2007|url=http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/09/16/sister_souljah_moments/}}</ref>
::''"a key moment when the candidate takes what at least appears to be a bold stand against certain extremes in their party" and as "a calculated denunciation of an extremist position or special interest group." Such an act of repudiation is designed to signal to [[centrist]] voters that the politician is not beholden to traditional, and sometimes unpopular, interest groups associated with the party."''<ref name=BG>{{cite web|work=[[The Boston Globe]]|title=Sister Souljah moments|first=Joan|last=Vennochi|date=September 16, 2007|url=http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/09/16/sister_souljah_moments/}}</ref>
==Origins==
The origins of the Democratic party party's "black problem" can be trace back to [[Lyndon Johnson]] and the 1957 and 194 Civil Rights Acts.
===1957 Civil Rights Act===
Republican Attorney General Herbert Brownell originally proposed the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Democrat Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson had Judiciary chairman Sen. James Eastland drastically water-down the House version, removing stringent voting protection clauses.<ref>https://history.house.gov/Historical-Highlights/1951-2000/The-Civil-Rights-Act-of-1957/</ref><ref>Caro, Robert, ''Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson'', Chapter 39</ref> The bill passed 285-126 in the House with Republicans providing the majority of votes 167–19 and Democrats 118–107.<ref>HR 6127. CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1957. PASSED. YEA SUPPORTS PRESIDENT'S POSITION. https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/85-1957/h42</ref> It then passed 72-18 in the Senate, with Republicans again supplying the majority of votes, 43–0 and Democrats voting 29–18. Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts, who later ran for president, voted against it.<ref>HR. 6127. CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1957. PASSED. https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/85-1957/s75</ref> It was the first federal civil rights legislation passed by the United States Congress since the Republicans passed the Civil Rights Act of 1875. Johnson told Sen. Richard Russell, {{quotebox|"These Negroes, they're getting pretty uppity these days and that's a problem for us since they've got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we've got to do something about this, we've got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference. For if we don't move at all, then their allies will line up against us and there'll be no way of stopping them, we'll lose the filibuster and there'll be no way of putting a brake on all sorts of wild legislation. It'll be Reconstruction all over again."<ref>Said to Senator Richard Russell, Jr. (D-GA) regarding the Civil Rights Act of 1957. As quoted in [http://books.google.com/books?id=HS9aAAAAYAAJ ''Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream''] (1977), by Doris Kearns Goodwin, New York: New American Library, p. 155.</ref>}}
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