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A lot of black voters don’t support Democrats

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Carl Beijer
Feb 06, 2020
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We’re back at that stage in the discourse cycle where some leftists threaten to withhold their votes from Democrats – and Democratic loyalists, in turn, accuse them of white privilege. The argument here is that black voters overwhelmingly support Democrats, and that white people only have the luxury to withhold their vote because they have less at stake.

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