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Judging from the recent events in Israel and Gaza — and the failure of American political leadership to stop a Palestinian genocide funded by the U.S. taxpayers — it appears Biden and the Democrats are working as hard as they can to lose the 2024 election.
The president needs young people, including Black Gen Zers and millennials to win reelection. These voters — who get much of their news and information from TikTok and are more supportive of Palestinian rights than older generations — are witnessing the massacre of Palestinian babies and children on social media, live streamed and unfiltered. And the Biden administration can’t seem to understand why that would be a problem.
Today, Black people are showing up and speaking out. At a recent event at Union Theological Seminary in New York, Ta-Nehisi Coates and Michelle Alexander were in conversation with Columbia University Professor Rashid Khalidi on the issue of Palestine. Coates visited Israel and the Palestinian territories and reflected on the visible signs of segregation, with separate roads, sidewalks and license plates for Jews and Palestinians.
“As I saw communities that I can only describe as segregated. I said this is Chicago, it’s Baltimore, it’s Philadelphia … and what I felt was a tremendous weight. I felt the obvious thing that I think all of us feel that our tax dollars are effectively subsidizing apartheid, subsidizing a…
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