“The function of polls showing Biden leading Trump is to
make people feel that what they are doing is working. It isn’t. We have yet to
come up with a way to stop the suppression of the Black and Brown vote that
will occur in November. Learn from 2016. All Trump needs is to eliminate a few
hundred thousand votes spread across several states. All the talk of being
ahead ignores the work being done by the Trump campaign to make sure that
specific local areas in several states have the apparatus to suppress enough votes.
“Remember all that talk of a problem with voting machines, the long lines, etc... It is not just a convergence of interest behind the fact that there is nothing coming out about this as a problem in the conservative media. Pay attention to the polls at our peril. Right now, we lose the election. It’s not enough just to want to vote if you are a Democrat. We have to make sure in each of our local areas that this is still true. Look at those areas that Trump won by small margins in 2016.
“This isn’t a popularity contest, but an election where one side knows they cannot get their candidate across the line without manipulating how important some areas in the country are in determining the electoral college result. Hilary crushed Trump in the popular vote. That doesn’t matter now. Don’t let the promise of democracy cloud your assessment of what is actually happening right now to make democratic processes impossible.
“We must register people, but we also must erode the efficacy of the machine being fine-tuned by Trump operatives to make sure some votes won’t count, and some won’t be able to vote. This is the fight. Enough Republican voters will be counted, enough Republican voters will be able to vote. Just enough. Remember Cambridge Analytics? The data mining has proceeded apace.
“Targeted resistance and donations to local organizations fighting voter registration purges, voter suppression tactics, and making sure more people are made aware of the race we are in here, five months before the election. That is our mandate. Let’s figure out how to stop being denied our right to vote. It isn’t that a different a fight than in the 1960's. The tactics of voter suppression should be the focus of our protests.
“Think about how the selective reporting and provision of health services among Black and Brown communities in this time of the COVID might augment voter suppression mechanisms across the country. Tracing the spread of infections and the provision of testing, the absence of adequate health care services in specific communities would give us a very good idea of where some of the problems in voter suppression will exist in the fall. Why is it again that so many report no one in their immediate vicinity has the virus? How do people interact and where do they congregate? This is the work of data gathering being done right now.
“The attention to electoral politics would also address the problem of policing. The connection between the two forms of controlling democratic processes, collective interests and the rights and welfare of specific populations, was obvious to those police and sheriffs who crushed voter registration drives and used violence against protesters in the 1960's. The same is true today” -Utz Mcknight, Chair of Gender and Race Studies at University of Alabama
“Remember all that talk of a problem with voting machines, the long lines, etc... It is not just a convergence of interest behind the fact that there is nothing coming out about this as a problem in the conservative media. Pay attention to the polls at our peril. Right now, we lose the election. It’s not enough just to want to vote if you are a Democrat. We have to make sure in each of our local areas that this is still true. Look at those areas that Trump won by small margins in 2016.
“This isn’t a popularity contest, but an election where one side knows they cannot get their candidate across the line without manipulating how important some areas in the country are in determining the electoral college result. Hilary crushed Trump in the popular vote. That doesn’t matter now. Don’t let the promise of democracy cloud your assessment of what is actually happening right now to make democratic processes impossible.
“We must register people, but we also must erode the efficacy of the machine being fine-tuned by Trump operatives to make sure some votes won’t count, and some won’t be able to vote. This is the fight. Enough Republican voters will be counted, enough Republican voters will be able to vote. Just enough. Remember Cambridge Analytics? The data mining has proceeded apace.
“Targeted resistance and donations to local organizations fighting voter registration purges, voter suppression tactics, and making sure more people are made aware of the race we are in here, five months before the election. That is our mandate. Let’s figure out how to stop being denied our right to vote. It isn’t that a different a fight than in the 1960's. The tactics of voter suppression should be the focus of our protests.
“Think about how the selective reporting and provision of health services among Black and Brown communities in this time of the COVID might augment voter suppression mechanisms across the country. Tracing the spread of infections and the provision of testing, the absence of adequate health care services in specific communities would give us a very good idea of where some of the problems in voter suppression will exist in the fall. Why is it again that so many report no one in their immediate vicinity has the virus? How do people interact and where do they congregate? This is the work of data gathering being done right now.
“The attention to electoral politics would also address the problem of policing. The connection between the two forms of controlling democratic processes, collective interests and the rights and welfare of specific populations, was obvious to those police and sheriffs who crushed voter registration drives and used violence against protesters in the 1960's. The same is true today” -Utz Mcknight, Chair of Gender and Race Studies at University of Alabama
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