#ElectionDay isn’t over yet. That means: if you're in line, stay in line. If you’re contacting voters, let’s keep pushing. Thank you for your critical work.
Speaking of which — I wanted to point to the powerful work @votingwhileblk is doing to reach Black voters nationwide.
Our volunteers and team have made:
—599,907 attempted calls and texts
—17,985,395 digital ad impressions
—855,364 pieces of direct mail sent
Whether you’re voting in person or by mail today, keep showing up and making your voice heard. Thank you to everyone who made calls, knocked doors, sent texts, planned events and showed up for our communities.
Our work doesn’t end after the polls close or after the results our certified. The work to build power and hold those in power accountable continues.
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Elon Musk doesn’t know what he’s doing, and he can’t tweet his way out of this. He’ll try to distract us with more nonsense. He’ll make more empty commitments, like when he told me on a call last week that he cared about safety and civil rights. But no one’s buying it.
He just lost his head of Trust & Safety, after firing the teams responsible for making Twitter safe and trustworthy: the entire human rights team, as well as the Ethics & Accountability team.
We can’t rely on billionaires who treat our communities’ safety as a hobby. We should look to the people affected by these media platforms — they know what needs to be done to fix them and make them safe, as do real tech leaders who take these issues seriously.
In the wake of yesterday's racist attack in Buffalo, media corporations, elected leaders and the police will attempt to distract from who and what is responsible. We can’t let those who are truly responsible hide:
Twitch enabled the shooter to livestream this white supremacist attack.
Comcast and Verizon continue to carry Fox News, where Tucker Carlson continues to spread racist lies about the great replacement theory.
The majority of Americans believe marijuana should be legalized. So why isn’t it?
The fact is there are a lot of corporations that profit off the millions of Black & brown people put in prisons & jails bc of nonviolent drug offenses. #LegalizeIt#420Day thehill.com/news/senate/32…
Let’s remember that even “public” prisons have profit-based incentives for criminalizing marijuana and targeting Black and brown communities.
Needless to say, our elected leaders need to #LegalizeMarijuana. But that’s not all. They must expunge records of those who've been unjustly incarcerated, end the war on drugs that ravages marginalized communities & get rid of profit-based incentives in the criminal legal system.
There are no “good old days” to go back to. The machines in Black neighborhoods never worked the way they do in white ones. The voting lines in Black neighborhoods have always been longer.
And voting has always been inaccessible to so many who can’t afford to take the day off work, access childcare and more.
I want to thank the Committee of Energy and Commerce for holding this hearing and introducing the Justice Against Malicious Algorithms Act, the Safe Tech Act, and the Civil Rights Modernization Act, each one of which is crucial for addressing the harms wrought by #BigTech.
The tech industry doesn't get to have its own rules. Like with any industry: self-regulation always turns out to mean no regulation, and unregulated corporations makes our problems worse, not better.
The #RittenhouseVerdict is not just wrong, it’s dangerous. Rittenhouse represents a type of violence that is only going to target more and more people over time.
Every day, movements for justice lead efforts to reduce violence — to change all the rules in society that incentivize it. But white leaders must confront the white people whose decisions create this violence.
This system was built by many people and it will take many people to dismantle and rebuild it. White leaders must step up. Everyone has a role to play — no one can say, “this is not my problem.”