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THEE NWMagpie - I Don't Argue With Ppl John Brown Would've Shot
I do think that every non-Black who questioned Black folks’ job qualifications. Claimed racism was no longer a problem. Was skeptical of AA. Said All Lives Matter. Victim blamed us. Believed they lost a job to DEI.
You paved the way for generationally weakening your most reliable voting block.
Thoughts for people living in safe blue cities and states:
Alabama is the birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement. People bled and died for our right to vote.
#AllRoadsLeadToTheSouth
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Even many white Dems are still selfish and clueless enough to believe that they can fight this fascism effectively with anti-Black Dem candidates that harm Black people and reduce the number of Black voters by incarcerating us and letting cops shoot us without consequence.🤦🏿♂️
This is bound to fail.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito leaned on an erroneous claim that Black voter turnout now tops white voter turnout, in his Callais v. Louisiana ruling that gutted the Voting Rights Act, reports The Guardian. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Lupita Nihongo
Christopher Webb
The ruling that upended the Voting Rights Act was based in part on a false data analysis about Black and white voter turnout.
Let
Them
Touch
The
Stove
Until
Their
Fingers
Burn
Off
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Our communities have weathered every storm and we can survive this.
Them? Not so much.
There are many stereotypes abt Black ppl. Most of them negative. But the ultimate truth about our legacy is simple. The legacy of the African American is that we won rights for every demographic. Every domino that fell, it began with Black liberation struggles. Freedom of movement? We gave you that.
I have a post about “blue” states that is sitting in my drafts.
This would have made my point 🫠