US friends:

I don't want to hear any of you ever say that African countries have corrupt elections again.

Ever!

You hear me? That's over for y'all now.

And this dude is still the GOP front runner! By a long shot! Like, it's not even close! A lot of y'all are like "This is fine!"

And I don't want to hear "Oh no! We're like a 3rd world country now!" That's that mess I often hear after the US has acted exactly like the US. We're not "like a 3rd world country." We're like ourselves.

@mekkaokereke @dpnash
But just because America is sliding towards corruption in elections doesn’t make elections in other countries honest.

@MizzBassie @dpnash

Stop saying "sliding towards." We're already here! 🤷🏿‍♂️

🤔And come to think of it... we've always been here?

Name another "Democratic" country that has a bigger racist discrepancy in election access than the US.

Name another "Democratic" country that has had as many violent election overthrows as happened during US reconstruction, but still can't even admit to itself that it has ever had a coup.

The US has never had a fair national election. Ever. Not one.

@mekkaokereke @dpnash
OK, but that doesn’t make elections in every other country fair.

@MizzBassie @dpnash

Agreed! I didn't say it does!

I'm just tired of the quite frankly racist way that US folks look down their noses at African democracy, when the US is a case study in how not to hold fair elections.

It's 2023, and we still haven't agreed that all races should have equal access to voting rights. Our former president is trying to steal elections.🤦🏿‍♂️

I don't know how many more pieces of evidence would be required to convince other US folk that we are not good at this.

@mekkaokereke @dpnash
Then we have to keep trying to do better. Discouraging though it may be.
@mekkaokereke @MizzBassie @dpnash the US is no longer worth the fawning and emulation seen in previous eras. It probably wasn't worth it then, but that's another issue. I read you loud and clear, mekka