The democratic socialist needs a historic groundswell of young voters and voters of color on Super Tuesday. Here’s how he’s trying to make it happen
After his speech at Winston-Salem State last week, Sanders joined a group of young people of color and led a march to an early-voting polling place on campus. There, I met, a senior at another nearby HBCU, North Carolina A&T State University, who supported Sanders.
He was keenly aware of how, at the state level, politicians had sought to dilute the power of voters who looked like him. North Carolina Republicansthat split his alma mater, North Carolina A & T, right down the middle into two congressional districts. A court threw out that map late last year. Super Tuesday held a greater significance for him, he told me: It was the first time in his life he’d be able to vote using a fair map.
Yet when the Sanders campaign asked her last fall if she would lead their new HBCU organizing effort, she took the job. Since joining, Vandergrift has helped support Sanders organizers on roughly 50 HBCU campuses nationwide, hosted online seminars that connect the history and traditions of HBCUs to Sanders’ message, and help bring Sanders himself to HBCU campuses. “HBCU students and black people more than anyone know what it feels like to be tokenized and used as a prop,” she said.
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