— with the cuts falling disproportionately in minority neighborhoods.
On top of all these factors, a host of new state laws have been implemented to discourage voter registration drives, or to make it difficult for college students to vote on campus— all of which target Black, brown and young Americans. Furthermore, the political power of our country’s cities -– where most of this week’s protests have taken place -– has been severely diminished. Partisan gerrymandering, combined with the recent demographic trend of Democrats clustering in cities, have made urban areas home to some of the least competitive legislative districts in the nation. If you live in an urban area, your ballot almost certainly matters far less than it would if cast in the suburbs.
In other words, places such as Atlanta; Columbus, Ohio; and Detroit — scenes of clashes instigated by police against protesters — are also the places whose residents have the hardest time affecting the laws that might make those clashes less likely to occur in the future. Finally, there is a growing understanding that, despite our living in a government for, of and by the people, winning the battle for public opinion isn’t enough. Thanks to the electoral college, even if Californians and New Yorkers register to vote in droves, it won’t matter in the presidential election because the only voters who matter are those in swing states.
THINK Tell protesters it’s only Donald Trump who’s pardoning Black inmates and commuting sentences. Tell Black people about novel education little grade schoolers in Nantucket get to prepare them to be future kings and queens of America. 3rd graders get political science.
THINK Sounds like those communities need to do a better job of living within the law.
THINK How the 1994 Crime Bill Fed the Mass Incarceration Crisis
THINK Did you mention that Kamala was an architect of this in California? I know, probably not.
THINK Atlanta has had a Democratic mayor since 1879; Detroit since 1962; and Columbus for the last twenty years.
THINK there rioting has guaranteed that I will not be voting democrat ever!
THINK Maybe, just maybe right now they are committing more crimes, thus more incarcerations. Objectively watch your local news, not the cable networks. See what is really happening in your neck of the woods.
THINK Pretty sure the constitution including the 15th and 19th Amendments gives just about everyone the right to vote so....
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