NYT Columnist Charles M. Blow Calls for the Medium-Sized Replacement—Back To The South! | Blog Posts
By Charles M. Blow Jan. 8, 2021 ATLANTA — A year ago this week, I packed some bags and left New York City for Atlanta. … But the exquisite fierceness of the city, its blur of ambition and ingenuity, didn’t hide the fact that many of my fellow Black New Yorkers were locked in perpetual oppression — geographically, economically and politically isolated. All around the North, Black power, if it existed, was mostly municipal, or confined to regional representation. Black people were not serving as the dominant force in electing governors or senators or securing Electoral College votes. â€...