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Black Lives Matter: The Democracy Edition
If you've been paying attention to the presidential elections, by now two things are indisputable:
1. Black communities in Atlanta, Detroit, and Philadelphia are in large part, responsible for a Biden/Harris victory,* and
If you've been paying attention to the presidential elections, by now two things are indisputable:
1. Black communities in Atlanta, Detroit, and Philadelphia are in large part, responsible for a Biden/Harris victory,* and
2. In the modern era, the effort to suppress the Black vote has rarely been as blatant.
From closing polling locations in Black neighborhoods to refusing to certify votes in majority Black counties, all pretense has been set aside.
From closing polling locations in Black neighborhoods to refusing to certify votes in majority Black counties, all pretense has been set aside.
The thinly veiled term "legal votes" has been hauled out and applied to majority non-white communities. At this point they may as well say "Black votes count for 3/5th of a vote.
Police brutality against Black people is what brought Black Lives Matter to international attention.
Police brutality against Black people is what brought Black Lives Matter to international attention.
Historically, you should know: one of the main functions of state-sanctioned violence against Black life in this country has been to keep Blacks from voting.
That's why the Voting Rights Act is one of the crowning achievements of the 60s Civil Rights Movement.
That's why the Voting Rights Act is one of the crowning achievements of the 60s Civil Rights Movement.
You know, the one that was gutted by the Supreme Court in 2013.
In the not yet cleared wake of the 2020 elections, it's obvious that an overwhelming majority of white men and an increasing majority of white women voted for fascism.
In the not yet cleared wake of the 2020 elections, it's obvious that an overwhelming majority of white men and an increasing majority of white women voted for fascism.
Without a large minority of white people and an OVERWHELMING majority of everyone else, this year may well have seen the end of democracy in the US.
While we celebrate, Black people await the inevitable reprisals.
This is where you come in.
While we celebrate, Black people await the inevitable reprisals.
This is where you come in.
If you actually enjoy living in a democratic republic, if you're in any way relieved to see 45* being deposed, you need to demonstrate that Black Lives Matter.
To you. Personally.
Don't wait until the next Black person become a hashtag because of police brutality.
To you. Personally.
Don't wait until the next Black person become a hashtag because of police brutality.
Don't wait until we're marching in the streets, being tear-gassed.
Don't wait until you're losing sleep because you're afraid a competent demagogue has stolen an election.
Protect Black Lives now. RIGHT FUCKING NOW.
Don't wait until you're losing sleep because you're afraid a competent demagogue has stolen an election.
Protect Black Lives now. RIGHT FUCKING NOW.
Protect them by creating economic opportunities. Protect them by remunerating them for the largesse of their cultural contributions.
Protect them by dismantling the institutions which profit by destroying Black communities, and by all means:
Protect them by dismantling the institutions which profit by destroying Black communities, and by all means:
Put your actual bodies in-between Black lives and race-based violence.
If you're looking forward to any president that isn't 45*, demonstrate it by creating laws that protect us when you don't NEED us. You can't win without us, and we are tired of being taken for granted.
If you're looking forward to any president that isn't 45*, demonstrate it by creating laws that protect us when you don't NEED us. You can't win without us, and we are tired of being taken for granted.
Protect Black Lives like Black lives protect democracy.
*Special shoutout to the Navajo nation, who handed Arizona to the Biden/Harris ticket. A debt is owed to Indigenous people in this country that can never be repaid.
*Special shoutout to the Navajo nation, who handed Arizona to the Biden/Harris ticket. A debt is owed to Indigenous people in this country that can never be repaid.
