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Civil Rights Leader Julian Bond: Obama Won With a New Electorate: "The Coalition of the Concerned"

1,461 views · Published 21 January 2013 · 3:50 · Indexed 3 October 2026

Channel: Democracy Now! · 2013 · News & Politics

DemocracyNow.org - Julian Bond, the leading civil rights activist and former chair of the board of the NAACP, speaks to the Peace Ball about how changing demographics in the United States helped propel President Obama to re-election. Bond helped found the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and was the first president of the Southern Poverty Law Center. "The depth of Republican dependence on white voters explains a lot about recent election -- not least about its outcome," Bond says. "Republican efforts to suppress minority voters backfired, big time."

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Civil Rights Leader Julian Bond: Obama Won With a New Electorate: "The Coalition of the Concerned"

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