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Sep 13 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
WATCH: Mississippi Moral Monday Nationwide Speak Out twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
This is a water emergency and a moral emergency. This is fixable, there is not a lack of funds, there is a lack of moral concious and political action. #JacksonWaterCrisis
Clean water is a human right! What the citizens of Jackson are experiencing is the direct result of policy violence. This does not have to be. #JacksonWaterCrisis
To choose not to fight for clean water, is to choose the opposite side of justice. #JacksonWaterCrisis

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The policies we see passed that deny healthcare, deny voting rights and deny living wages are uncivilized, according to the North Carolina State Constitution. If we ever needed to vote for democracy and justice we sure do need to vote now.
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The word for “voice” & “vote” is the same word in Hebrew, kol. If we ever needed to vote for democracy & justice we sure do need to vote now.
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Policy itself is not benign, policy that is not done right, the Bible says, is evil. Policy that does not center the least of these is unjust.
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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!
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It's been 235 years since Black People were fraction-ized in the very constitution that says "All men are created equal"
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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?
We can’t pick & choose on these issues—loud about the amount of federal relief on student loans but almost muted on living wages.

These issues are not just about Black people, but all people— especially the 140 million poor and low-wealth people in this nation.
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