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The “Bought-Off” Black Caucus
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
09 Jul 2018
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“They won’t do anything for us and, in fact, they’ll vote alongside our enemies,” said BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley, referring to the Congressional Black Caucus’s overwhelming support for a bill to make police a protected class. “They are actively supporting a group of people that have a license to kill,” said Kimberley.

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