You really gotta question the motives of America’s most famous athlete if he watched a month long national movement against police/criminal injustice supported by international solidarity and decided voter awareness would be his pet issue this year

Neither of the Civil Rights bills of the 60s were passed because niggas were threatening to give it to the whites at the ballot box. They were passed because niggas were threatening to grind the the gears of the system through direct action, protest and, yes, riots and violence

Prolly a strategy room full of counterintelligence apparatchiks breathing a sigh of relief that influential blacks are neutering the conversation around mass criminal justice and policing reform and intensely focusing on “voting issues” instead