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Black Voters Won’t Save the Democrats
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
05 Nov 2019
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If the Democrats continue to behave as if the working class is white, they won’t be able to count on huge Black turnouts at the polls, said activist and public interest attorney Malaika Jabali. Many Blacks in the economically depressed Midwest opted out of voting in the last presidential election, believing the Democrats “don’t care about me, so why should I care about them,” said Jabali.

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