21 October 2015 — Black Agenda Report
Blacks Will Transform America, and Free Themselves, But Not at the Ballot Box in 2016
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
It is paradoxical that African Americans, who politically most resemble the Scandinavian social democrats Bernie Sanders claims to admire, are not supporting Sanders for president. Based on a “calculus of fear,” African Americans “cast their votes in national elections seeking protection from the Greater Evil, rather than voting their line-item policy preferences, or even considering the platforms of parties that challenge the duopoly system.”
The New Dark Age 