An electoral blank-out breaks the premise that black voters are captured

Evidence

We have to change the terms of political debate. This involves, as I have suggested, changing our view of government, our view of black and white people, and our view of what matters to us as Americans. An electoral blank-out undermines, at least for an election cycle, the assumption that black voters are captured and silent. It also disrupts the racial advocacy hustle of a black political class leveraging its ability to deliver black voters for crumbs and/or for selfish gain. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 623

Categorization

• DEFINE: Specifies the mechanism and intended effect of the blank-out ballot — dissolving the ‘captured and silent’ assumption and disrupting the black political class’s hustle.
• XREF: This is the core ‘trap not strategy’ contention the reader must assess on how it has aged since 2016. — connects to: Exclusion from electoral politics drove black women to build their own representative bodies. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 690