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Black Political Class "Illegitimate"
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
22 Aug 2017
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Veteran activist Kamm Howard, speaking at the national conference of the Black Is Back Coalition, in Chicago, said data show Black peoples’ two main “desires” are reparations and self-determination, which he described as “Black people governing their own communities, independent of the Democratic Party. Our political leadership is supposed to mirror these desires,” said Howard -- and when they fail to do so, that renders them illegitimate


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