Thread by @docrocktex26

Better yet, folk need to give up on trying to change racist White women/men and focus on fighting unconstitutional voter suppression that’s wiping Black folk with good sense off the rolls.

https://twitter.com/vabvox/status/1060066732088479744

I’ve been saying this #onhere since I joined Twitter 10 years ago. If White liberals don’t get serious about fighting racist voter suppression in the South and all across America, Democrats will continue to underperform where/when it counts the most.

https://twitter.com/docrocktex26/status/1053337387525378049?s=21

These red/purple state D candidates are going to keep coming up short bc the national party apparatus is too busy trying to accommodate wishy washy unreliable White voters to actually FIGHT voter suppression and give the Black base a shot at a level playing field. It’s surrender.

The unspoken truth of 2014, 2016, and 2018 is that the 2013 dismantling of the VRA has done magnitudes of damage to the Black/Latino/Native American vote and we aren’t doing anywhere near enough to fight back. Either we know it’s real and unjust or we keep pretending it’s kosher.

If Democrats aren’t willing to fight at the *margins*, voter suppression will ensure that hotly contested races like these in TX, GA and FL will continue to remain in the R column. They suppress far more votes than their “winning” margins. Routinely.

https://twitter.com/docrocktex26/status/862263496792317952?s=21

YES, I’m mostly disgusted today and YES you’re gonna hear about it if you’re following my feed. A premeditated robbery continues to be in progress in this country and every warning Black women like myself have given has proven to be prescient. I’ve paid the price to be livid.🔥

Beto will be alright whether he chooses to seek higher office or contest this election or not. Black women in Texas will still have 3rd world level maternal/infant mortality and a racist, unrepresentative GOP government that doesn’t think our lives matter. Also racist neighbors.

We can pretend this shit is free and fair all we want to but that doesn’t make it true. The Union is weak because it’s throwing people of color to the wolves of the White majority in the “former” Confederacy and the states’ right of Jim Crow voter suppression is alive and well.

They may not have us bound by chains but they’ve shackled our votes with impunity from the SCOTUS and it’s a mounting constitutional crisis apart from everything else Trump’s brought to the table thus far. It’s a centuries old battle that still hasn’t been won yet.

Stop shouting the word gerrymandering out of your mouth if you aren’t willing to address the racism, White flight and segregation that breathe life into it. It’s the *same* fucking Jim Crow as roll purges, polling place scarcity, long ass lines, rigged machines and voter ID.

The fact remains that a majority of White Americans are still systematically voting for an apartheid government that disenfranchises non-White people by default, and I refuse to participate in false hope that they will cease and desist any time soon (if ever).

The fact remains that our local, state and federal courts are still stacked w/racist fucks who will continue to uphold White supremacy when it ends up on the docket, and they’re entrenched in the system just as they were when Black folk were 3/5s of a person. The sin isn’t dead.

Do NOT fix your mouth to talk about 2020 if you don’t have a plan for an all out apeshit ATTACK on GOP voter suppression in 2019. GTFOH because I simply can’t take you seriously and don’t have time for learned helplessness.

Do NOT talk to me about gerrymandering if you aren’t using every 2018 Blue wave pickup to start the long, arduous process of redrawing these heinously segregated maps towards a progressive future. Get on the actual fucking battlefield first.

You can best fucking believe that the day after Election Day 2008, the GOP hatched a monstrously successful plan to dismantle the multicultural voting coalition Obama built/expanded in 2012, and they continue to reap the benefits of dismantling the Voting Rights Act in 2013.

The evidence of the crime is painfully clear, it’s way past time that we actually return the “favor” and prosecute the perpetrators before they have a chance to do it again. Dispense with the myth of time already, we don’t have it. Fight NOW. #VoterSuppressionMatters

This 2016 graph is damn near identical to the ones produced in TX, GA and FL on #ElectionDay 2018. They bait White voters with racism then use their ill gotten gains to further erase the competition from future contests. White “power”, see how they run.

https://twitter.com/docrocktex26/status/1053327274592886787?s=21

Receipts on that in case these images aren’t already seared into your brain like they are mine. This is what Jim Crow, the Southern Strategy and “when racism trumps socialism” circa PJ 2016 look like for the umpteenth fucking time, Y’ALL.