LZ Granderson: Black votes count, even if results for Black voters seem scarce

There has never been a Black speaker of the House.

I've been thinking about that piece of trivia a lot since the day George Floyd was murdered in May 2020. When put to a vote, the country twice elected a Black person to be president before white liberals in Congress could once elect a Black person to be third in line. In our entire history, that has been the case. It's frustrating, isn't it? Washington politics. If national politics were all that mattered, I could understand why some Black people would be tempted to ask themselves "why