Blank-out voting undercuts the black political class’s leverage over captured voters

Evidence

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

• XREF: The ‘racial advocacy hustle’ claim echoes critiques of the black political establishment in works like Randall Kennedy and recent black political thought.