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Today is the 58th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday when racist white cops and their Klan posse nearly murdered the young marchers crossing the Pettus Bridge. Six decades. And we are still asking, When will America allow Black people to vote? #Selma58 gregpalast.com/two-old-guys-a…
We aren’t fools. Advances have been no less than breathtaking, revolutionary. But, dammit, here we are, 58 years on, and from Georgia to Florida to Wisconsin, the vote suppression trickery is getting uglier and uglier and, unfortunately, more sophisticated.
Just this week, the Georgia legislature voted to eliminate every single dropbox — knowing full well that this is the principal method Black voters use to cast ballots to avoid the hours-long voting lines that have been forced on them in Atlanta. gregpalast.com/the-long-histo…
