Post AXzNilOhwL7ytZSnLs by mickeleh@mas.to
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 (DIR) Post #AXy26QkZxu8Tewc7Pc by mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
       2023-07-22T22:35:27Z
       
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       It's 2023, and there's a US election in 2024 that will determine the future of climate change, war in Ukraine, the global economy, reproductive rights, and global fascism.And folks still want to talk about Cambridge Analytica in 2015, instead of stuff like this:https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/democrats-scramble-reach-voters-florida-cancels-mail-ballot-requests-rcna91294The reason you can't make any progress on:* Climate change* Reproductive rights* Trans rightsIs because too many Black folk are denied the right to vote. Focus on that instead of your pet issue.
       
 (DIR) Post #AXy26RQlR3sblmLoAK by Aviva_Gary@noc.social
       2023-07-22T23:08:19Z
       
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       @mekkaokereke I mean you are correct but I would add they are the same issue: destruction. There is an element in the USA (the powers-that-be) who are willing to destroy anything to get rich and fat. They don't understand you have to build instead.🤑  If you don't, destruction is all you have and that is never going to turn out well...
       
 (DIR) Post #AXy26TXZaiVyJTYH3Y by mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
       2023-07-22T22:39:12Z
       
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       I'm a climate doomer, because I know that no progress on the climate can happen unless Black voting rights in the US get sorted. And we aren't even paying attention to the Black voting problem, let alone close to solving it.There is no path to making meaningful progress on climate change that doesn't go through Black people in the US getting to vote. None. The fact that we still can't accept this, is why I'm not optimistic about our chances to do anything meaningful about the climate.
       
 (DIR) Post #AXzNilOhwL7ytZSnLs by mickeleh@mas.to
       2023-07-23T04:01:46Z
       
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       @mekkaokereke Do you see any hope in this?“The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) is launching a super PAC to mobilize Black voters ahead of 2024 in an effort to give the House a Democratic majority and, in the process, elect the nation’s first Black Speaker of the House.”The Rolling Sea Action Fundhttps://thehill.com/homenews/race-politics/4103913-new-congressional-black-caucus-pac-set-to-mobilize-black-voters-ahead-of-2024/
       
 (DIR) Post #AXzNimE6rEFDSzVqTI by mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
       2023-07-23T04:22:25Z
       
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       @mickeleh Absolutely not. I think campaigns like this are less than helpful. They turn Black voters off. Especially Black men.My threads on here are all about racist voter suppression. But the media conversation is always around "getting out the vote" or "mobilising Black voters?" The solution is to yell at the victims to try harder?The word "suppression" didn't appear in this article even once.No one is more motivated than Black voters. They don't need to be mobilized. They need help.
       
 (DIR) Post #AXzNin7PXcTqEVO0fY by mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
       2023-07-23T04:26:12Z
       
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       @mickeleh Black people wait in line for 8 hours to vote, and take another day off work to register. GOP changes things to make it 9 hours, and requires 3 days off work. The Dem response to this is... to ask Black voters to suck it up because "democracy needs you!" and take the 3 days and 9 hour voting line? And if Black voters don't take that 3 days off work and wait in line to vote for 9 hours, in sufficient numbers to win for the Dems, then we are blamed for losing the election?
       
 (DIR) Post #AXzNinzeHxriwilKD2 by megmuttonhead@mas.to
       2023-07-23T13:57:14Z
       
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       @mekkaokereke @mickeleh as a white woman in a fairly prosperous suburb, I have never waited in line longer than 30 minutes (and that was exceptional). To cast my vote. Registering to vote, early voting, absentee ballot? All trivially easy and convenient. I was over 50 years old before I learned how different the experiences of Black, Latina, and poor friends were. (Thank you social media, for teaching me how not-universal my life experiences are.)
       
 (DIR) Post #AXzNiqLLYGPUEavgJ6 by mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
       2023-07-23T04:31:23Z
       
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       @mickeleh The "mobilize Black voters" meme is insulting, and ignores the facts of what's really going on.The CBC should take all of the money they raise, and focus it on pushing left by supporting the correct candidates, fighting disenfranchisement tactics, and implementing some of the "year round" "authentic" efforts to address what Black communities need, mentioned way down in the article.