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The CBC is Forgetting About the Black Working Class
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The Root
view video Tyler Perry Deals ‘Mind Crack’, According to Judge Joe BrownThey are both examples of the Black political elite choosing corporate-friendly politicians over the Black working class.
All the while, the Clinton administration’s economic policies benefited Wall Street to the detriment of the Black working class.
The CBC again held the line, defending the first Black president, even as Black working-class rage grew.
By 2019 and two years into the Trump administration, I was beginning to seriously doubt that the Democratic Party and the CBC prioritized helping the Black working class.
Our civil rights heroes and, for a time, Jesse Jackson and Barack Obama, knew it would take an economic populist revolution to offer stable lives to the Black working class.