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Jesse Jackson Disses ‘Moderate’ Joe Biden, Endorses Bernie Sanders
‘Moderation’ Only Reinforces The Status Quo
On Sunday, March 8, 2020, the Rev. Jesse Jackson gave a full-throated endorsement of Democratic Party presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT). This defining imprimatur comes just before both Tuesday’s pivotal primary in Michigan and the Illinois primary on March 17. Both states feature significant numbers of African American voters, who may be crucial, if not definitive, in determining both the Democratic Party’s nominee and the direction of the party itself for the foreseeable future.
Michigan is now considered a “swing” state simply and only because of that state’s and the national Republican Party’s unrelenting past and current voter suppression regimes. The obvious and clear case in point is that four years ago, in 2016, as many as 70,000 black people in Detroit City alone were in-your-face cheated out of their voting power by Republican Party shenanigans. Yes, because of, and only because of voter suppression, Donald Trump won the state of Michigan by some 10,000 votes.
Illinois, however, is a solidly “Blue” state, because and only because, its political winds are driven by its northern megalopolis Chicago. Thus, Illinois will undoubtedly serve up its twenty Electoral College votes to…
