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The Black Vote
On November 8, 1992, Bill Clinton received a greater percentage of the black vote than any president to win a U.S. Presidential election since Jimmy Carter in 1976.

Data Source: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research (Cornell University)
After winning the election, Clinton also appointed a number of black American citizens to serve in his administration, including but not limited to:
- Mike Espy, Secretary of Agriculture (1993)
- Ron Brown, Secretary of Commerce (1993)
- Hazel R. O’ Leary, Secretary of Energy (1993)
- Jesse Brown, Secretary of Veterans Affairs (1993)
- Alexis Herman, Secretary of Labor (1997)
- Rodney E. Slater, Secretary of Transportation (1997)
- Togo D. West, Jr., Secretary of Veterans Affairs (1998)
In fact, Clinton appointed more black Cabinet Secretaries than any U.S. president in the nation’s history, including Barack Obama. Doing so gave the Clinton the appearance not only of better representing black people in the nation’s highest office, but also of rewarding black voters for turning out to vote for him with real change at the highest levels of administration.
And in 1999, towards the end of Clinton’s presidency, the Clinton White House sought to commemorate such real changes with a web page titled “
Working on Behalf of African Americans.”
This page mentions over 80 initiatives that the Clinton administration advocated for and took part in during their time in office, including but not limited to (and these are line-items lifted directly from the page):
- Closing the Book on A Generation of Deficits.
- Real Wages Are Rising for African Americans.
- Addressing HIV/AIDS in Minority Community with an Historic $130 Million Effort.
- Extended Health Care to Millions of Children with the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
- Hosted the First-Ever White House Conference on Africa in July 1994.
- Launched the President’s Partnership for Economic Opportunity in Africa Initiative.
America has three foundings: the Revolutionary War, the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement. With the election of Donald Trump, America will need a fourth founding to defend and renew its democracy against a man and regime who, as promised, will rule like a dictatorship or some other form of authoritarianism modeled after Vladimir Putin's Russia or Viktor Orbán's Hungary.
Are there enough Americans who are up to such a task and responsibility? Based on Tuesday’s election results, I very much doubt