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Bernie Sanders Holds Press Conference to Announce…He’s Still in the Race
Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders sure knows how to milk a moment, doesn’t he? After a Deontay Wilder-like showing on Tuesday, Sanders called a press conference Wednesday to announce that he doesn’t care if he’s a bazillion delegates behind, he’s going to stay in the fight for the Democratic presidential nomination. He then went on a…
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A Conversation With a Wise Old Black Negro Who Voted for Joe Biden
“Hey Sweetie,” Miss Mable said, as she welcomed me onto her porch. “Would you like some tea?” Mable Jenkins was known in this sleepy, sticky, southern, black community for two things—her sweet tea and her preternatural tendency to vote for moderate Democrats in highly contested primaries—so of course, I accepted. “The kids call me Miss…
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Democratic Primaries: Joe Biden Beats Bernie Sanders Like He Stole His Tax Refund
At this point, it might be time for independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders to start thanking his supporters and urging them not to be petty Bettys and make sure that they support the eventual Democratic presidential nominee, former Vice President and lifeguard Joe Robinette Biden. Like all-black low-top Nike Air Force 1s, Biden proved to…
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Cornel West, What You Doin'?
FLINT, Mich—Political surrogates for presidential candidates have a tough job. They have to pitch their preferred candidates’ strengths while avoiding tough questions about their weaknesses and shortcomings in a way that doesn’t excuse them. It’s an impossible mission because all politicians will fail you. They have too many people to please and someone always ends…
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Bernie Has a Shot at Winning Michigan, but His Challenges With Older Black Voters May Doom His Chances
DETROIT—There are few towns in America in which you can gauge black enthusiasm for the political process better than the Motor City. With a population of more than 600,000, close to 80 percent of which is black, it is literally the biggest black city in America. With its population alone, Detroit should determine statewide and…
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Bernie Sanders' Senior Adviser Said Some Very Stupid Things…Like Most of Us
White people are racist, straight people are homophobic, men are sexist and everyone is stupid. Everyone. I firmly believe that most white people have told a racist joke, have laughed at one, or remained silent when one of their friends or family members said something racist. I have often written that people who are silent…
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Kamala Harris Endorses Joe Biden While Jesse Jackson Backs Bernie Sanders
What a difference a few months make. On Sunday, former presidential hopeful Kamala Harris said she would do “everything in my power” to help elect Joe Biden into office in 2020. The California senator, who seemed to be a formidable opponent – at least on the debate stage – before dropping out of the Democratic…
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Black Voters Are the Most Influential Voting Bloc in the Country. Their Generational and Regional Differences Are Worth Exploring
The immediate wake of Super Tuesday went more or less as predicted: some jubilation, some anger, and a lot of punditry on overdrive as those invested in the Democratic presidential nomination collectively recalibrated where the race now stands. Southern states turned out for former Vice President Joe Biden, pushing him to the front of the…
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An Open Letter to White Liberals Blaming 'Low Information' Black Voters for Not Cleaning Up White Folks' Mess
Dear Sir or White Man, I’m writing this letter, lurking outside the threshold to equality, peering through the same peephole through which we watched you enjoy 401 years of unfettered, glorious freedom while black people presented themselves as a living sacrifice, offering their necks to nooses, their skulls to batons and their children’s bodies to…
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Biden Stays on Brand, Bernie Wins Pot-Smoking States and Other Takeaways From Super Tuesday
It’s the resurgence of Uncle Joe! If you woke up on Regular Wednesday, which is the official name for the day after Super Tuesday, you would’ve thought that the former vice president was in the bottom of the ninth with the bases loaded walking up to the plate needing a grand slam to win the…