Jay Smooth: Straighten Up, Lefties (Or Suffer Through More Water Chestnuts).

Gene "G.D." Demby is the founder and editor of PostBourgie. In his day job, he blogs and reports on race and ethnicity for NPR's Code Switch team.

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But are “we” (those who comprise the left) really all on the same team? I guess so if it means helping to unseat the Republicans from the White Houses, huh? But what has the left actually done to benefit blacks and other minorities that make up roughly 35 percent of its population?