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Good. I’m glad they did it.
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Hell the Republicans are doing far worse than that…people of color have a keen perspective of whats included in this flyer…hopefully it translates to going out and voting!
Unless of course you are one of the 40,000 votes Sec of State Kemp is trying to suppress…then you have to try even harder!
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Only someone asleep would be unaware of the horrible statistics regarding African Americans and their precarious position in the Criminal Justice System.
In saner times, this theme would have been invoked weeks earlier. NOW, in TeaBagg U.S.A. this takes the form of a special headline, as I am sure a headline of a 1910 interracial marriage in plain sight would have brought forth a “special headline”.
Special headlines occur because they are they are describing something people would see as rare.
That’s how far we have to crawl back from the TeaBagg abyss Minnie Pearl and Billy Bob have dragged this country to. Young African Americans (the ones with target-on-back) are, unfortunately have to fight against TeaBagg Nation.
What makes me so upset about Baggers (in addition to everything else) is that they are from the Generation which, instead of one which carefully sought to pass along needed lore from the days of the Civil Rights struggle, is rather one which got high, demonstrated, dodged the Draft and then, when old and tired, decided to become Baggers, the very ones cheering TeaBagg policies
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Yeah. I know it’s a manipulative tactic but it is a good way to motivate people to go ahead and go to the trouble to vote. One of these days, our collective effort will overpower that of the regressives who want to cling to white supremacy.
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I’m afraid the Baggerdom demographics are multi-generational; therefore, it will take more than an actuary to defeat their odious ideology.
The conservative “outrage machine” is going full steam on twitter…must mean its effective.
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They are very worried about this race. Their guy is tanking at just the right time.
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I honestly don’t feel it’s a manipulative tactic. If black folk came out to vote every time and in the kinds of numbers we did in 2008 and 2012, there would be a whole lot fewer Fergusons. Ferguson wouldn’t be “Ferguson” if they’d voted in representative numbers there. For those reasons I think it’s a fair to point out the cost of sitting out elections.
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But, no ISIS video footage?
Yes.
Good point. I agree and I hope it works! I keep thinking “Surely we must be getting close to outnumbering the people determined to maintain white supremacy.” I just haven’t understood why the reality hasn’t made its way to the ballot boxes yet. Has everyone just given up hope? If so, maybe some good old-fashioned anger and spite will motivate everyone.