The specific intent to invalidate the votes of 10s of thousands of Black people will have consequences regardless of how successful it is.
Trump has spent his tenure as POTUS attempting to invalidate both the humanity & citizenship of Black and Brown people. His final blow is to tell his followers that the votes of Black people are illegitimate. This has consequences for the treatment of Black people in our society.
Trump's assault on the citizenship of Black Americans became clear with his Birther campaign. It is now bookended w/ his quest to demonize & dehumanize Black voters in cities like Detroit, Milwaukee, & Philadelphia.
We should all be explicit about this, b/c the citizenship of Black Americans is under constant threat. Trump's amplification of these threats should be described in clear terms: he seeks to undermine the equal status of Black people as citizens in our democracy.
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