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Louis Proyect
(Some Political Revolution that avoided directly attacking the
shittiest presidential candidate of the Democratic Party since
Grover Cleveland.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/21/us/politics/bernie-sanders-democrats-2020.html
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Maybe so. But also, and maybe more to the point, on momentum against
Sanders in the South and aftermath: Fear Pervades Black Politics, and
Makes Us Agents of Our Own Oppression
https://www.blackagendareport.com/fear-pervades-black-politics-and-makes-us-agents-our-own-oppression.
I think that the pro-Bernie Black columnist Glen Ford here slights the
genuine fears of long-time, insecure, settled, voting African Americans,
who have a justified fear of another four years of Trump and "the white
man's party," and who may not think that Bernie, whatever the merits of
his program, is as sure a bet to defeat Trump as is Biden.
Ford clearly recognizes that fear but I don't think it helps in the
circumstances to attack his fellow Blacks for it by again attaching
Malcolm X's 'we's sick" to them. It has a long, painful history. It's as
Trump says dismissing the unfairness of testing the elite in sports,
business and politics before the rest of us, "a fact of life."
More appositely, what does anyone propose doing about it? One thing,
first, is to pinpoint the responsibility of what he calls the
self-serving "Black Misleadership Class," who in conducting their
constituents through the thicket of American politics have long since
abandoned their class and ethnic origins.
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