In Detroit, Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed stood before faith leaders and gave a name to something American political life has long resisted naming: the accumulated, unacknowledged debts owed to Black communities. Speaking not in the language of tactics but of moral obligation, El-Sayed argued that leadership begins with the willingness to see what has gone unpaid — in health, in housing, in economic opportunity — and to answer for it. His words arrived in the middle of one of the nation's most competitive Senate races, where the question of who shows up, and why, may decide everythi