It’s 2020, and Waller County Republicans are still suppressing the votes of Black students at @PVAMU in #TX10.
A THREAD:
Prairie View A&M is Texas’ second oldest institution of higher learning, an HBCU built on top of a slave plantation.
Since the 1970’s, students have fought for voting rights against a Republican-conrolled county government seeking to deny the franchise.
In 1979, Prairie View students won a landmark Supreme Court battle giving students everywhere the right to register and vote wherever they attend college.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symm_v._U…
In 2018, our campaign joined the long struggle against racist voter suppression in Waller County.
msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/…
Together with the @PVAMU community, we successfully pushed back against racist disenfranchisement tactics.
chron.com/news/houston-t…
In 2019, I sued the Texas Secretary of State over hundreds of voting location closures impacting students and the elderly. kut.org/post/young-dem…
Now, despite community leaders speaking out and demanding an on-campus early voting location — in the middle of a pandemic — the GOP-controlled Waller County Commissioner’s Court struck again, voting to place the nearest location off campus.
This is inexcusable: we need to pass the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act immediately to stop racist voter suppression.
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