What Sanders’ black staffers actually said
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Terrell Starr has published a new article aspiring to explain How Bernie Sanders lost black voters. As he explains elsewhere, what’s “new” about this piece “is that [Sanders’] own former black staff is critiquing his campaign.” Specifically, the article is built around quotes from two staffers who are willing to go on record: deputy director for African…