BREAKING! Americans are waking up to the true level of hate, racism and corruption that is accepted in our country and may finally understand what Black Americans have had to endure for centuries. #WeTriedToTellYou
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Donald Trump put a major donor in charge of the postal service to disrupt the mail and now wants the Supreme Court to ban states from counting mailed-in ballots, wants the court to ignore actual voters. #AllVotersMatter
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Trump ran daily ads telling black men Joe Biden hated them because he supported "super-predator" laws decades ago. But the Dems didn't run ads about him taking out a front-page ad & doing TV shows seeking execution of innocent black boys in the Central Park Jogger case.
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And Trump is responsible for overseeing the highest number of #Covid19 cases in a single week that most states have seen all pandemic. But he has convinced supporters it is not real because it only kills weak and Black people. So he'll keep ignoring it until millions die.
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The great shame is: Had he not cheated, had the GOP not suppressed votes, Trump probably still would be doing as well as he is because, sadly, many Americans refuse to believe the level of hate that exists in this country because they only saw it just this year.
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And the Democratic Party didn't take seriously how big a threat Trump was because, like 4 years ago, they thought every American saw what most Americans do: an inept, hateful man who craves attention and power - and the white folks who will do anything to share that power.
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Four years ago, I was working in an American newsroom & told editors Donald Trump was going to be elected. I'd told them for weeks, but they only began to listen at about 9 p.m. that night.
Last night, I skipped election coverage for the first time ever, watched @HGTV.
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It's not that I thought Trump would win. I just didn't want to watch how close it would be. Now we must prep for Trump to close the loop on the GOP strategy: Disenfranchise some voters by not counting their ballots & packing the Supreme Court to try to steal the election.
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And like a poorly written script, we watched this movie knowing what was coming next & still seemed surprised. Trump stood in the once-revered White House and declared victory while votes were being counted, before he had reached the required number delegates like last time.
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So that is the long answer to the question put to me in the middle of the night via text from a friend "What is Michigan doing?" Same thing it and other states were doing four years ago: Counting every vote, because #EveryVoteMatters
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And someone, anyone who isn't afraid to, needs to explain to Donald Trump that Hillary Clinton finally conceded in 2016 because he had the requisite number of delegates, even though he'd wind up not having the most votes.
He does not have those delegates yet.
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But here's the bigger issue: That we even allowed this man to run rather than be removed from office is a travesty.
That he has done irreparable damage to America is a damn shame.
So know this: We will be counting all votes in Michigan. Other states have declared the same -- because #AllVotersMatter so #Patience, America. #TrumpHasNotWon
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In 1961, Fannie Lou Hamer received a hysterectomy by a white doctor without her consent. Two years later, after successfully registering to vote, she and other Black women were arrested for sitting in a “whites-only” bus station restaurant in Charleston, S.C.
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At the jail, she and several of the women were brutally beaten, leaving Hamer with lilfelong injuries, including kidney damage, leg damage and a blood clot in her eye.
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In 1964, Hamer co-founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), which challenged the local Democratic Party’s efforts to block Black participation. Hamer & MFDP members went to the Democratic National Convention, arguing to be recognized as the official delegation.
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#HadItBeenObama, he would NOT have disagreed with a nurse who explained overcoming the sporadic arrival of PPEs. President Obama would have pledged to get more & thanked her for her heroic service. #45's disrespect for the Oval Office is heartbreaking. bit.ly/sporadicPPEs
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#HadItBeenObama, the pandemic team that #45 disbanded would have been able to alert the country months earlier, saving thousands of lives. President Obama would not have publicly called #Covid19 "a hoax" - something some #45 supporters believe to this day.
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#HadItBeenObama, @BarackObama would NEVER have told doctors they didn't need the ventilators they were desperately begging for because he knew his degree was in law, not medicine. Obama would have moved heaven and earth to get the front lines what they needed to save lives.
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Let's try this one more time: @RashidaTlaib did NOT call @MarkMeadows a racist. She pointed out that what he did could be construed as racist. Rather than whine, he could have learned to do better - unless he doesn't want to do better.
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@RashidaTlaib@MarkMeadows She should not have apologized for his misunderstanding her attempt to teach. And if people of color are not allowed to point out racist acts, how will people who claim not to be racist know when what they're doing can be misconstrued?
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@RashidaTlaib@MarkMeadows And, for the record, people have been claiming that having a black friend makes them not racist is a tact as old as time.