A response to a letter from an African American Democratic voter asking what Middle Nation has to offer her in place of voting.
Part 1 presents the diagnosis through data: the negative framing of Black political preferences, the stagnant wealth gap, the bipartisan foundations of mass incarceration, and the influence of the three major asset managers that effectively own much of the country. It then reframes the meaning of dignity, representation, and citizenship within a declining empire that her grandmother would scarcely recognize.
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