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Gaspard-Hogewood predicted there would be a shift away from preaching about Democrats and toward more formless evils.

They generally held that the system and its systemic evils should be immediately overthrown, and welcomed the Civil War as a type of eschatological event.

All of this is not to say that Black reformers rejected the idea of staging a political revolution when necessary to abolish entrenched systemic evils.

"It's the lesser of two evils for me right now," she said, explaining that she would ultimately cast her ballot for Harris but felt Trump may prove better for small businesses.

But I won’t consider my vote for Harris as being forced to choose between the “lesser of two evils.”