Granderson: Should Black athletes boycott racist states? Yes. Everyone should.
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- Conservatives routinely use images of encampments and boarded-up storefronts to criticize progressive policies on the coasts, but 80% of the country’s 341 “persistent poverty” counties are in the South.
- In fact, the highest concentration of poverty is in states that have been entirely controlled by conservatives for well over a decade.
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Conservatives routinely use images of encampments and boarded-up storefronts to criticize progressive policies on the coasts, but 80% of the country’s 341 “persistent poverty” counties are in the South.
In fact, the highest concentration of poverty is in states that have been entirely controlled by conservatives for well over a decade. We’re talking Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi … you know, a lot of the same states that attacked the United States during the Civil War. The same states that opposed civil rights for Black people 50 years ago. The same states that are racing to redraw congressional maps with the intention of stripping political power away from Black people today.