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Aug 27 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
WATCH: Mass Mobilizing Tour of North Carolina Congressional Districts - Wilmington #NCVotingTour2022 twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
50 million voters could have less voting opportunities this year than they had in 2020. We should never talk about voting rights and voter suppression as a Black issue, we should be talking about it as a threat to democracy and dis-aggregate how it hurts everybody!
The right to vote is not partisan, our right to vote is borne out of struggle, borne out of sacrifice. Our votes are not mere support for personalities or particular candidates, our votes are demands!
The reason we must vote is because of the present pain and policies that have been pushed and promulgated since the southern strategy in 1967 to divide the power blocks that could change the country for the better.

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Truth is, we should end student loan debt & $10k is a step forward, not the entirety of what is needed. But to some of those critizing Biden on student debt: where have you been on challenging corporations to pay living wages & demanding Congress pass a $15 minimum wage…
Or demanding corporations fully support the complete restoration of voting rights & the original For the People Act? Where have you been on paid family leave, & universal health care? Or stopping pipelines thru poor, low-wage & Native lands?
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We have lost a scholar, a preacher, a voting rights defender, an advocate for prison reform & for the wrongfully accused, a stalwart soldier in the cause of love & justice for all humankind.
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