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Black Voters Energized to Fight Raw Racism
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
19 Dec 2017
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It took the likes of Alabama’s Roy Moore to bring Blacks to the polls in decisive numbers. “It’s hard to mobilize against “polite racism,” said Kevin Alexander Gray, the veteran activist and author from Columbia, South Carolina. Since the rise of the Clintons, southern Blacks have had to fight corporatist Democrats as well as Republicans. That may be changing under Trump. “I think that white supremacy, and the raw face of white supremacy, is a mobilizer, said Gray.

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