The black vote that still remained was not trained and educated, but further debauched by open and unblushing bribery, or force and fraud; until the Negro voter was thoroughly inoculated with the idea that politics was a method of private gain by disreputable means.
Du Bois details how the remaining Black vote was corrupted through bribery, force, and fraud, leading Black voters to perceive politics as a means of disreputable personal gain.
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