It's 2023, and there's a US election in 2024 that will determine the future of climate change, war in Ukraine, the global economy, reproductive rights, and global fascism.
And folks still want to talk about Cambridge Analytica in 2015, instead of stuff like this:
The reason you can't make any progress on:
* Climate change
* Reproductive rights
* Trans rights
Is because too many Black folk are denied the right to vote. Focus on that instead of your pet issue.
I'm a climate doomer, because I know that no progress on the climate can happen unless Black voting rights in the US get sorted. And we aren't even paying attention to the Black voting problem, let alone close to solving it.
There is no path to making meaningful progress on climate change that doesn't go through Black people in the US getting to vote. None. The fact that we still can't accept this, is why I'm not optimistic about our chances to do anything meaningful about the climate.
@mekkaokereke Do you see any hope in this?
“The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) is launching a super PAC to mobilize Black voters ahead of 2024 in an effort to give the House a Democratic majority and, in the process, elect the nation’s first Black Speaker of the House.”
The Rolling Sea Action Fund
The Congressional Black Caucus is launching a super PAC to mobilize Black voters ahead of 2024 in an effort to give the House a Democratic majority and, in the process, elect the nation’s first Black Speaker of the House. The Rolling Sea Action Fund will raise money as well as invest in different advertising and…
@mickeleh Absolutely not. I think campaigns like this are less than helpful. They turn Black voters off. Especially Black men.
My threads on here are all about racist voter suppression. But the media conversation is always around "getting out the vote" or "mobilising Black voters?" The solution is to yell at the victims to try harder?
The word "suppression" didn't appear in this article even once.
No one is more motivated than Black voters. They don't need to be mobilized. They need help.
Black people wait in line for 8 hours to vote, and take another day off work to register. GOP changes things to make it 9 hours, and requires 3 days off work. The Dem response to this is... to ask Black voters to suck it up because "democracy needs you!" and take the 3 days and 9 hour voting line?
And if Black voters don't take that 3 days off work and wait in line to vote for 9 hours, in sufficient numbers to win for the Dems, then we are blamed for losing the election?
Being registered to vote is not enough. That's the whole point of voter ID. If you are registered to vote, but don't have a current ID when you vote, then the ballot that you cast is provisional. It may or may not count, depending on what else you do. And you only have 72 hours to fix it.
1: Lose a day of work standing in line to vote.
2: Lose a day going to the DMV to request a replacement license
3: Lose a day going to the City clerk's office
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/10/voter-suppression-wisconsin-election-2016/
@Theneilcace @CMDoran @EricFielding @mekkaokereke @mickeleh in a neighborhood that hasn't been fucked over by cars (excessive parking, gutted transit, etc) it's faster.
I live downtown in a city of only 18k in the US.
My grocery store is 2 blocks away. I can walk to literally everything I need in less time then it takes anyone in a car.
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