We are respectable negroes: Tavis Smiley Making Sense and Calling Out Foolishness: “Latinos, Women and Young People–That is the New Governing Coalition”

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The poet Gwendolyn Brooks had this wonderful refrain, “the last of the loud.” Respectfully, somebody has to remind the president day in and day out of the debt he owes Black America. After four years of being sidelined and silenced, it’s time to get loud. We have to be willing to engage even if we are “the last of the loud.”

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