The fact that black voters have voted over 90 percent Democ… - Crispin Sartwell

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The fact that black voters have voted over 90 percent Democratic for decades leaves them almost wholly without power. Democrats—paradigmatically, the Clintons—feint in their direction during general elections, trying to assure turnout and using them to bash Republicans as bigots and—in the usual fashion—as emblems of their own goodness.

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Crispin Gallagher Sartwell (born 1958) is an American philosopher, self-professed and journalist. He received his B.A. from the , his M.A. from and his from the —where his dissertation supervisor was Richard Rorty—-and is currently on leave from his position as a member of the faculty of in .

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