What Bernie and Friends (and the Media) Don’t Get About Black Voters

D. Elisabeth Glassco
6 min readMay 9, 2019
Bruce Davidson
USA. New York City. 1963. Malcolm X rally in Harlem

Here come the media pieces purporting to figure out what’s going on with Biden and Black voters.

Here’s one and here’s one.

Almost all hand wring over why, given Biden’s history of missteps (Anita Hill, busing desegregation, the war on drugs, me too, etc.), would Black voters support him in large numbers and why the other…

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D. Elisabeth Glassco

A native of of the great state of Mississippi and proud resident of New Jersey. Lecturer and Doctoral candidate in Media, Race, Class, and Politics @Rutgers.