though Black support for the Clinton administration is frequently touted, a number of prominent African Americans were outspoken both about how Bill Clinton advocated for welfare reform with an approach that deepened extreme poverty, and played into a culture of poverty myths about Black people, and at the same time embraced policies and practices that destabilized and dispossessed Haiti. Black politics in Miami were both local and hemispheric. The most painful part is this: we mix and move and cross fates and link them. We are cast down and pushed aside in so many different ways, and yet so
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