Sherrilyn IfillJul 21, 2023

Yes @emptywheel. Thank you. Now let’s ask why& what the consequences are of the media & expert analysts on cable TV constantly whitewashing Trump’s targeting of Black voters.Below are my tweets from the KKK Act suit the NAACP LDF filed right after the election. It was there in plain sight.
https://www.emptywheel.net/2023/07/20/trumps-attack-on-black-votes-was-there-the-whole-time-we-just-didnt-call-it-a-crime/

https://twitter.com/sifill_/status/1341420795520831488?s=46&t=zr8OwjRATtdNOqo_RsX0eQ

Trump's Attack on Black Votes Was There the Whole Time, We Just Didn't Call It a Crime - emptywheel

Trump deployed threats of violence to make it harder to count the votes of Black and Latino voters but no one treated it as a crime.

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Show threadTom Shafer
@ifilljustice @emptywheel Even a non-journalist like me noticed which counties Trump and his allies were complaining about the most: Maricopa County in Arizona, Fulton County in Georgia, Wayne County in Michigan, Philadelphia County in Pennsylvania, Milwaukee County in Wisconsin. Counties with the largest Black populations in each state. This is most definitely a voting rights/civil rights issue.
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Show thread12foxfireJul 22, 2023
@TomShafShafer @ifilljustice @emptywheel
Yes, me too. I wondered, being familiar with Fulton and Wayne counties. But I also wondered about the lack of civil rights discussion.