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"To this day, many black officeholders depend on the perception of on-going, widespread racism in order to remain competitive in the electoral process. They underplay the dramatic improvements in economic and social status experienced by blacks over the last 40 years. They know that the easiest way to win reelection is to make the voting populace believe that the problems confronting the black lower class continue to stem primarily from racism. Whereas once this was certainly true, continuing to cling to the idea of race based solutions has now isolated the black community and led them down a dead end street. Instead of acknowledging this fact by revaluating the tenets of liberalism, our leaders just tote the same old racially divisive rhetoric that solicits knee jerk reactions from the populace. And they continue to win, because at least one sad reality of democratic politics is that emotional arguments often trump sensible discussion of policy reform. "