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Jan 23

Voter suppression is:
•Forcing Black ppl to wait 2X as long as white ppl to vote
•Requiring a new ID even after an ID was confirmed at voter registration
•Banning IDs disproportionately used by Black voters
•Closing polling locations in Black neighborhoods
#VotingRightsAct

Voter suppression is:
•Racial gerrymandering that disproportionately represents white voters over non-white voters
•Police target/charge Black people at higher rates, disenfranchising them
•Longer sentences for Black Americans,blocking them from more elections
#VotingRightsAct

Voter suppression is:
•Prison gerrymandering, where Black incarcerated people are denied voting but counted for redistricting
•Requiring formerly incarcerated people to pay court fees before voting
•Requiring people to take off work & lose money just to vote
#VotingRightsAct

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@QasimRashid

Jan 21

Page County, VA school board meeting

“No mask mandates. My children will not come to school Monday with a mask on. I will bring every single gun, loaded & ready…I’ll see y’all on Monday.”

This woman should be arrested for threatening a school shooting.

UPDATE: Local law enforcement is aware of the school shooting threat but no arrests have been made because she’s “apologized for her statement.”

White privilege is openly threatening to shoot up a school and police forgive you because you’re really really sorry.🤦🏽‍♂️

UPDATE 2: Police have charged Amelia King with making a terroristic threat on school property. She’s been arrested and released on $5000 bond.

This is a good start to accountability. No one should be allowed to get away with such horrific calls to violence.

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@QasimRashid

Jan 20

Let's talk about the atrocity that happened in the Senate last night with 50 Republicans & 2 Dems blocking voting rights.

First of all—17 GOP Senators who voted FOR this bill back in 2006, now voted AGAINST it. GOP is telling us they've stopped caring about democracy.

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This voting rights failure is a stark reminder that the Senate protects land—not people. Look at the math.

USA has ~330M people. The 52 Senators who blocked voting rights rep 148M people, The 48 Senators who support voting rights rep 182M people.

That's 34M people silenced!

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When asked about Black voter suppression, GOP Senator McConnell said, "African-American voters are voting in just as high a percentage as Americans.”

This is a lie, but also, he said the quiet part loud. Black people are not "real" Americans, who are apparently only white.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq.

@QasimRashid

Dec 26, 2021

@nhannahjones

Predictable fail from Chuck Todd

Todd: "Parents are saying 'don't make my kid feel guilty." And a parent of color is going ‘I need to teach reality.'"

@nhannahjones: "Your framing said 'parents.' And then 'parents of color.' So the 'white' is silent."

@chucktodd

Also since @chucktodd keeps asking “how young is too young” to talk about racism—I was 8 the first time I was called “camel jockey” & “sand ni**er.”

If BIPOC kids are old enough to experience racism—all kids are old enough to learn about the existence of racism & how to stop it.

Moreover, 54% of US school kids are BIPOC & 46% are white, while only 20% of US teachers are BIPOC & 80% are white.

The claim that white kids are being “race shamed” by teachers—the vast majority of whom are themselves white—is absurd & w/o evidence.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq.

@QasimRashid

Nov 30, 2021

On Nov 30, 1921, a mob of white supremacists in Ballinger, TX, seized Robert Murtore, a 15-year-old Black child, from the custody of law enforcement, tied him to a post, & lynched him with 50 gunshots in broad daylight.

Today is the 100 year anniversary of this atrocity
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A 9 year old white girl claimed a Black person had harassed her. Robert was accused and arrested, & the following day the mob demanded police hand him over. The sheriff quickly handed him over to be lynched.

None of the white supremacists were charged or arrested. Instead...

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A TX newspaper described the white supremacist mob as “orderly" & leaving “peacefully”—all this after violently taking the young boy’s life in a horrific lynching.

I think about Robert as I think about Ahmaud Arbery, and the similarities are frightening—even 100 years later

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Qasim Rashid, Esq.

@QasimRashid

Nov 18, 2021

Most of you have heard of Crystal Mason, the Black Texas woman sentenced to 5 years prison for inadvertently voting. Her vote never counted, but she was sentenced anyway.

Meanwhile white MAGA voters are getting off w/wrist slaps.

A thread on the systemic racism behind this:

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Donald Hartle, a white man, voted on behalf of his dead wife for Trump. He then lied to investigators, went on a propaganda GOP funded campaign to claim mass voter fraud, & finally got caught.

Donald got ZERO prison.

Crystal Mason got 5 years prison
8newsnow.com/news/local-new…

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Terry Lynne Rote, a white Iowa woman, deliberately voted for Trump twice with two absentee ballots.

Terry got ZERO prison.

Crystal Mason got 5 years prison.
desmoinesregister.com/story/news/cri…

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