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And that makes it pretty clear.
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Or take this example of a kind of a black bloody shirt.
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This is Benjamin Tanner, the editor of The Christian Recorder,
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the largest circulation black newspaper in the United States.
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It was the weekly newspaper of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
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And he put it into a kind of little parable.
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And he says what's at stake in the '68 election--
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this is very gendered of course--
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when you think about the power and significance of black male suffrage
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you know exactly what he's aiming at.
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He says Negro manhood is what is at stake in '68.
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Here's the way he put it.