It’s time that we stop staying home around election time because we think that our votes do not matter. They do!!!
We need to get out there every November and ever special election in between. We need to vote in everything from city council to county clerk to the state and federal levels. Staying home doesn’t give voice to our concerns. If you feel that your vote won’t make a difference; vote anyway and tell others in your community to do that same.
Also… Run for public office and raise your voice and your vote!
I think it’s very important to point out those that crossed party lines to vote for Moore (BELOW). Also, important to look at how the independents voted. And again, the split in ideology.
I said this after the presidential election… I’m speaking to liberals… we can’t hold claim to the Independents; there is this notion that when a person says they or Independent or have no party affiliation, then they must lean left. WRONG; we have no idea how far right or left any one person leans.
An independent very liberal white voter from Alabama that may have never worked with a black person probably is gonna vote for their best interests. If that means, voting for the accused molester and guy that believes that we should get rid of every amendment after 10th then that is how they going to vote.
Stop shaming and attacking people that vote and start getting people that normally stay home out to the polls.
I need to add…
They [racists] will not want another Alabama to happen… Black folks need to organize and get everyone registered to vote, and get everyone a state ID; hey, even a passport. If they pull that voter ID crap then organizer events where we help those that will need one get one.
Come election day, charter buses if we have to… Carpool… Get us to polls
It is hard to describe the bittersweet sting that many African-Americans feel witnessing this national embrace of addicts. It is heartening to see the eclipse of the generations-long failed war on drugs. But black Americans are also knowingly weary and embittered by the absence of such enlightened thinking when those in our own families were similarly wounded. When the face of addiction had dark skin, this nation’s police did not see sons and daughters, sister and brothers. They saw “brothas,” young thugs to be locked up, rather than “people with a purpose in life.”
As of the 17th, hundreds of thousands of Haitians and Dominican-Haitians here will be rendered stateless and eligible for summary detention and deportation. The Dominican government maintains that they will not delay implementation of the law, despite pressure from the US, the UN, the OAS, and the Pope.
The government also announced last week that they do not intend to deport those who have already registered for legalization. However, I am documenting dozens of personal accounts from Dominican-Haitians who have gone to great lengths to register, some as much as 8-9 months ago, and as of today have not received any type of confirmation that their paperwork has even been processed. Without confirmation, they are still eligible for deportation. This does not even consider the hundreds of thousands of others who lack birth certificates and thus could not register in the first place.
He also reports that in the barrios, police trucks have come through to conduct limpiezas(“cleanings,” with the adjective implied: “social cleanings”): “The detained tend to range from intoxicated persons to suspected prostitutes, but are disproportionately Haitian or dark-skinned Dominicans with Haitian facial features. These could just be guys drinking and playing dominos or women standing on street corners. More often, though, they tend to be young men with Haitian features and darker skin. The police usually—usually—detain them for a night and then let them go with a warning.” But, he says, this stepped-up activity is preparation for June 16:
Given the common practice of nightly police sweeps, the government solicitation of passenger buses, the official declaration of intent to pass Law 169-14 without delay on June 16, and the general history of anti-Haitian abuses on the part of law enforcement and government authorities, it is reasonable to assume that the infrastructure is now in place for mass detention and deportation of Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent from the Dominican Republic. The general attitude among this vulnerable subpopulation is a mix of fear and resignation.
How is that the Dominicans (not saying all are this way) do not see that to the white Europeans, that would oppress a people, everyone else is a moor; is Black. What will happened to the children that are born with darker skin?
Black Privilege
Don’t Cash Crop My Cornrows - a crash discourse on black culture.
White folks, when your friends and family repeat these anti-black sentiments online and offline we need you to speak up and collect them. I can’t have this conversation with your racist uncle for you. Deleting racists from your feed or just ignoring them isn’t making things better. The work isn’t easy, but we need you to do it.
