"Black folks are the most left-leaning constituency in the United
States, that's been shown generation after generation.....But we don't behave that way in national elections. And this year, much
as in previous years, what we're seeing is that the black vote acts as
the bulwark of the most reactionary wing of the Democratic party, the
right wing of the Democratic party, and its standard-bearer this time
around, Hillary Clinton."
--Glen Ford, Black Agenda Report
According to Ford, if Sanders cannot break through the "brick wall" of
black voters who have so far not come to him in sufficient numbers, his
presidential campaign is "doomed."
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/02/23/wake-south-carolina-endorsing-sanders-spike-lee-slams-rigged-system
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we should be wary that a faux “movement” may be manufactured on the backs of real movements that have sought to upend that political and ...
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Americans “must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.”...
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