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Black Is Back Chairman: US System in Trouble
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
08 Jan 2019
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“The entire system is held in high disregard,” said Black Is Back Coalition chairman Omali Yeshitela,” and that’s why you see the disappearance of the so-called ‘center’” in the two corporate parties. The Coalition will hold another in a series of electoral politics schools, in St. Louis, in April. “The people want something other than what the system has to offer,” said Yeshitela. The Black Is Back Coalition advocates a politics of Black self-determination.

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