YK what’s wild about seeing/HEARING voter suppression live & in real time? How the media, including white progressive media, threw Black voters under the bus & blamed us for 2016 even though they all knew voter suppression prohibited what, 200k voters from voting in key states.
There were articles all over the place admitting that in key Red states, voter suppression of Black & Dem votes was very real and yet, ‘Low Black turnout’ was everywhere. Those were even Progressive talking points. Nevermind that 200k votes were tossed/not allowed when we knw...
...that man only won the EC, with 70k votes. That’s all. So seeing the President try & swing this shit...after an election where, once again, NO ONE voted against this monster more than Black Voters & watching white Progressive media B so shocked that voter suppression is real...
...also...how white progressive media basically CLOWNED Stacy Abrams for not conceeding (quickly) after Beto & Gillum DID...but also jumping on her bra strap NOW bcuz she knew then & now how this voter suppression shit works is just...engaged isn’t even the word. They...
...tried to shame her. Throwing her ‘loss’ in her face & basically making fun of her fight, telling her to be more like Beto & Gillium & ‘lose gracefully’...it’s just really something. It really is. Now look who’se hoping that BW fight & organizing pays off. The whole country🙃
A reminder that it is literally in *everyone’s* best interest to not let Black voters & in particular, BW voters feel to powerful. But look who, like fucking ALWAYS, is getting things done when no one else cared or *could*.
13 % of the population. And BW make up half of that. And look at our power. Please go into 2021 knowing & embracing that. Our power. Your power.
Indigenous organizers, undocumented organizers, Organizers of color, LGBTQIA organizers, marginalized organizers, this is our country gahtdamnit. And NEVER forget it. EVER. WE WILL DECIDE THIS COUNTRY’S FUTURE.
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