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- Ajamu Baraka, BAR editorSlick operatives among the Black Misleadership Class have made an electoral pact with big capitalists that is totally against the interests of the Black working class.
- Glen Ford , BAR executive editorThere really is no more to the clap-trap about a Black electoral “strategy” than attempting to figure out which way the white folks are going and then circling the Black wagons, accordingly.
- Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnistThe United States has none of the systems or infrastructure that would allow it to accomplish what China has done to fight mass infection.