“Black Folks Are Tired”: In South Carolina, 2020 Candidates And Demonstrators Looking For “Magic' Converge
Sen. Cory Booker at the Black Economic Alliance Forum at the Charleston Music Hall on June 15, in Charleston, South Carolina.
In real time, the protesters stood up as both a new twist and potential constituency as the state prepares to take center stage in national politics this week, ahead of Rep. Jim Clyburn’s huge fish fry event and the state Democratic convention. The co-chairs of the Black Economic Alliance, Tony Coles and Charles Phillips, said they chose to hold the forum because the state’s primary is made up of about two-thirds black South Carolinians. Another organizer who spoke called the forum “a love letter to the black community.”
Longshoreman and longtime labor rights activist Leonard Riley, Jr., described the history of protest and black labor in Charleston as complicated, but he was encouraged by what’s happening now, including how the Democratic presidential candidates are treating their movement. “I think everybody is trying to find that right balance,” he said in an interview. “But this is a good time.
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