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https://theconfirmationfiles.com/2019/06/17/how-the-democratic-party-strangled-black-politics/
Interesting note: Rep Conyers stuck in neutral.
Since Conyers had no problem describing himself as a “socialist,” and routinely won re-election with more than 80 percent of the vote in his overwhelmingly Black district, I asked him why he remained in the Democratic Party, which was – then, as now – dominated by warmongering servants of capital. Conyers seemed shocked at the question. “The party would destroy me if I ran outside of it,” the Congressman replied, a look of horror on his still-youthful face, as if I had proposed that he go swimming in a shark tank.
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Nothing changes on the electoral scene, and little at the grassroots level, unless the structure of capitalist hegemony over political discourse in the U.S. — the corporate duopoly — is broken.
“Today’s Black Caucus sleeps, eats and votes with the enemy.”
Long, long ago — in the late 1970s, to be more precise – I spent a Washington-to-New York AMTRAK ride talking politics with Black Detroit Congressman John Conyers, whom I considered a friend. The Congressional Black Caucus numbered only sixteen members at that time, less than a third its current size, and Conyers was among its most left-leaning members, along with the Bay Area’s Ron Dellums and Gus Savage, the former labor activist from Chicago. There were no right wing members of the Black Caucus.
Since Conyers had no problem describing himself as a “socialist,” and routinely won re-election with more than 80 percent of the vote in his overwhelmingly…
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