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Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Corey Booker and the Hard Right’s Colonization of Black American Politics
Posted by Justin Jeffre
The Black Agenda Report’s Bruce Dixon describes a new kind of black Democrat and political class. “A new black political class has arisen, one with only nominal connections to black voters or communities. Their careers and orientation are corporate through and through. Some prominent black Democrats have actually been operatives of the hard right for decades, like Newark’s Corey Booker”.
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