What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before. (Angela Davis)

What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before.

Angela Davis

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