For all the talk about white politicians’ virtue-signaling to Black voters Hillary Clinton’s hot sauce in her purse, Bill Clinton’s saxophone playing on a Black talk show, or Nancy Pelosi’s donning kente cloth and taking a knee they did actually support affirmative action, DEI, the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, raising the minimum wage, expanding health care coverage, reducing student loan debt, and banning assault weapons. Trump and the Republicans oppose all of it. In fact, when it comes to substance, Republicans aren’t even trying. They’re phoning it in because the expectations are so low that even one Black person saying a nice thing about Trump is now considered breaking news in the right-wing ecosphere.
For all the talk about white politicians’ virtue-signaling to Black voters Hillary Clinton’s hot sauce in her purse, Bill Clinton’s saxophone playing on a Black talk show, or Nancy Pelosi’s donning kente cloth and taking a knee they did actually support affirmative action, DEI, the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, raising the minimum wage, expanding health care coverage, reducing student loan debt, and banning assault weapons. Trump and the Republicans oppose all of it. In fact, when it comes to substance, Republicans aren’t even trying. They’re phoning it in because the expectations are so low that even one Black person saying a nice thing about Trump is now considered breaking news in the right-wing ecosphere.
Little more than 100 pages into Colson Whitehead’s remarkable new novel, “Crook Manifesto,” a sequel to the best-selling “Harlem Shuffle,” Herschel “Uncle Heshie” Lefkowitz, a minor character and an i.
The two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of Harlem Shuffle continues his Harlem saga in a powerful and hugely-entertaining novel that.
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