In a Substack piece posted in January before he endorsed her, Allred wrote that “much of the criticism aimed at candidates like Ms. Crockett is wrapped in the language of electability.”
“But in practice, it often functions as a quiet veto,” he wrote, adding that Black women in particular are “routinely told they’re too sharp, too loud, too polarizing — even when they are deeply connected to the very communities Democrats keep saying we need to reengage.”
