BGOL midterms 2022. It begins. Booker says Blacks MUST VOTE
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I'm not speaking of black folks in general, I'm speaking specifically of the people on this board who are trying to persuade black voters to give up their power.
Withholding votes has to be strategic. Other groups who do it have an organized effort. The engage the candidate and make sure the candidate knows when and why their numbers will tank. Black folks not engaging simply makes us come across as unreliable voters, people who will show up maybe for the general but not the midterms. When it happens certain considerations need to be made. States are erasing the voice of black voters, but y'all are ok with it to own the dems. SMH.
With No Change in Votes from 2020, GOP Would Win Through Gerrymandering in 2022
Because of the way maps are set to be redrawn, five seats will likely flip from blue to red next year.truthout.org
I'm not speaking of black folks in general, I'm speaking specifically of the people on this board who are trying to persuade black voters to give up their power.
Withholding votes has to be strategic. Other groups who do it have an organized effort. The engage the candidate and make sure the candidate knows when and why their numbers will tank. Black folks not engaging simply makes us come across as unreliable voters, people who will show up maybe for the general but not the midterms. When it happens certain considerations need to be made. States are erasing the voice of black voters, but y'all are ok with it to own the dems. SMH.
With No Change in Votes from 2020, GOP Would Win Through Gerrymandering in 2022
Because of the way maps are set to be redrawn, five seats will likely flip from blue to red next year.
This is just Democrat "lift every voice and sing" talk.
It doesnt take strategy to say "give us what we want and need or dont get our vote".
It does if you want the candidate to know about it, and not just think black folks aren't interested in the political process. Every other group has lobbyists. The squeaky wheel gets the grease. Soul on ice posted a video the other day at a town hall with a guy asking about reparations. If they can't afford lobbyists, they should be showing up at every town hall, if they feel strongly about an agenda, like other groups who get what they want do. Even GOP townhalls to get them on record as for or against, to get the local interest up.
Black people don’t need any stupid lobbyists. All black people have to do is sit there asses home and tell democrats they are NOT voting anymore until we get our reparations and tangibles. I bet you when democrats lose a couple of election cycles.
They will get there act together and get on there knees with some tangibles for the black community.
They love to scare black people with republicans will win like who cares? Your not getting any real benefits under a Joe Biden administration.
But the problem with black people is that the democrats have a Pimp and Hoe relationship with the black community. Most black people have very low self esteem and low self worth to be independent. Most are ok with just being on the Democratic plantation hoping that there master or there pimp will one that do good by them. When all the democrats do is use us for votes and toss us until another election cycle.
Legendary Black radio host Joe Madison is two weeks into a hunger strike that could become a risk to his health. Madison, 72, is doing it for one reason: To pressure President Joe Biden and Democrats in Congress to pass voting rights legislation as the GOP actively works to restrict ballot access.
As Madison told CNN's Don Lemon on Friday, "Just as food is essential for the existence of life, voting is essential for the existence of democracy."
Madison, a civil rights activist turned SiriusXM radio host who was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in 2019, is so committed to the cause he is willing to put his life on the line. When I spoke to Madison on my own radio show a few days into his hunger strike, he shared that his wife asked him, "Are you telling me that you are willing to die for this cause?" He said he looked at her and responded with one word: "Yes." Madison then added passionately, "This is the new civil rights movement."
More than 50 years after the Voting Rights Act, no one should have to risk their life to ensure all Americans can exercise a constitutionally protected right to vote. But that's where we are in 2021 America thanks to the GOP. It was not Donald Trump's "Big Lie" about non-existent election fraud but his "Big Loss" in the 2020 election that has animated Republicans to pass 33 laws in 19 states since January to make it more difficult to vote. Today's GOP won't allow the democratic will of the people to stand in their way of acquiring and retaining political power.
The GOP's effort to "cancel" voting rights is a threat to all Americans who believe in democracy, regardless of race. But it is a particular threat to Black Americans, who have been targeted in Trump's baseless claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election, and who have been historically disenfranchised with Jim Crow era laws designed to make it almost impossible for them to vote without the danger of deadly violence.
Just one example is World War II veteran Maceo Snipes, who stood up to that threat when he became the only Black person to vote in the 1946 primary in Taylor County, Georgia. A few days after the election, a group of White men showed up at Snipes' door, where they asked him to step outside. When Snipes did, they shot him. Snipes later died from the shooting, and charges were never brought against his killers. Mr. Snipes, though, was far from the only Black person or allies of other races who was killed in the pursuit of access to the ballot for African Americans.
The GOP's voter suppression campaign is not only a threat to our democracy today but it's also an insult to the memory of Snipes and all others who have toiled, bled and died simply for the right to cast a ballot
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In his first speech after defeating Trump in the 2020 election, President Biden credited Black voters for being a large part of his win. "The African American community stood up again for me," he said of the community that voted nearly 90 percent in his favor in last year's election. He then pledged, "You've always had my back, and I'll have yours."
Countless callers to my radio show who are Black have cited that line to express their disappointment in Biden's failing to have their backs on voting rights. Instead, Biden has been laser-focused for months on his infrastructure and social safety net legislation. But what's the use of shining bridges if you don't have a functioning democracy? With Biden's success last week in both signing the bipartisan infrastructure bill into law and his broader Build Back Better bill passing the House, he must now make voting rights reform his public priority.
To be fair, the Democrats in the House already passed two different voting rights bills this year, the For the People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. But Republicans in the Senate have blocked progress on both.
There has also been a glimmer of hope in recent months with the Senate Democrats drafting the Freedom to Vote Act, which would provide a national standard for federal elections as well as end partisan gerrymandering. All 50 Democratic Senators supported the bill, meaning this could pass if brought to a vote with Vice President Kamala Harris breaking the tie. But due to the filibuster requiring 10 GOP Senators to consent to even allow a vote, this measure has been blocked with not one Republican senator in support. You can see why former President Barack Obama last year called the filibuster a "Jim Crow relic," as the GOP is now using it to block legislation that would protect against voter suppression.
The Democrats' failure to make voting rights a top priority may also explain why, in the recent Virginia gubernatorial race, Black voters were a smaller percentage of the electorate (16%) than in 2020 (18%), and only 86% voted for the Democratic candidate compared to 89% who went for Biden in 2020. In a close election, this kind of drop-off can decide the winner.
In 2021, who would have thought -- as Joe Madison put it -- that we'd be engaged in a "new civil rights movement"? But this is where our nation finds itself as the GOP rejects a robust democracy in the pursuit of electoral autocracy.
It's time President Biden and the Democrats make voting rights the top issue in 2022. Biden should travel the country selling it, in addition to publicly -- and very doggedly -- pressuring Senate Democrats to end the filibuster. Biden owes that to the Black community who supported him, and to all Americans who believe that their vote and their voice matters.
As Madison told CNN's Don Lemon on Friday, "Just as food is essential for the existence of life, voting is essential for the existence of democracy."
Madison, a civil rights activist turned SiriusXM radio host who was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in 2019, is so committed to the cause he is willing to put his life on the line. When I spoke to Madison on my own radio show a few days into his hunger strike, he shared that his wife asked him, "Are you telling me that you are willing to die for this cause?" He said he looked at her and responded with one word: "Yes." Madison then added passionately, "This is the new civil rights movement."
More than 50 years after the Voting Rights Act, no one should have to risk their life to ensure all Americans can exercise a constitutionally protected right to vote. But that's where we are in 2021 America thanks to the GOP. It was not Donald Trump's "Big Lie" about non-existent election fraud but his "Big Loss" in the 2020 election that has animated Republicans to pass 33 laws in 19 states since January to make it more difficult to vote. Today's GOP won't allow the democratic will of the people to stand in their way of acquiring and retaining political power.
The GOP's effort to "cancel" voting rights is a threat to all Americans who believe in democracy, regardless of race. But it is a particular threat to Black Americans, who have been targeted in Trump's baseless claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election, and who have been historically disenfranchised with Jim Crow era laws designed to make it almost impossible for them to vote without the danger of deadly violence.
Just one example is World War II veteran Maceo Snipes, who stood up to that threat when he became the only Black person to vote in the 1946 primary in Taylor County, Georgia. A few days after the election, a group of White men showed up at Snipes' door, where they asked him to step outside. When Snipes did, they shot him. Snipes later died from the shooting, and charges were never brought against his killers. Mr. Snipes, though, was far from the only Black person or allies of other races who was killed in the pursuit of access to the ballot for African Americans.
The GOP's voter suppression campaign is not only a threat to our democracy today but it's also an insult to the memory of Snipes and all others who have toiled, bled and died simply for the right to cast a ballot
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In his first speech after defeating Trump in the 2020 election, President Biden credited Black voters for being a large part of his win. "The African American community stood up again for me," he said of the community that voted nearly 90 percent in his favor in last year's election. He then pledged, "You've always had my back, and I'll have yours."
Countless callers to my radio show who are Black have cited that line to express their disappointment in Biden's failing to have their backs on voting rights. Instead, Biden has been laser-focused for months on his infrastructure and social safety net legislation. But what's the use of shining bridges if you don't have a functioning democracy? With Biden's success last week in both signing the bipartisan infrastructure bill into law and his broader Build Back Better bill passing the House, he must now make voting rights reform his public priority.
To be fair, the Democrats in the House already passed two different voting rights bills this year, the For the People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. But Republicans in the Senate have blocked progress on both.
There has also been a glimmer of hope in recent months with the Senate Democrats drafting the Freedom to Vote Act, which would provide a national standard for federal elections as well as end partisan gerrymandering. All 50 Democratic Senators supported the bill, meaning this could pass if brought to a vote with Vice President Kamala Harris breaking the tie. But due to the filibuster requiring 10 GOP Senators to consent to even allow a vote, this measure has been blocked with not one Republican senator in support. You can see why former President Barack Obama last year called the filibuster a "Jim Crow relic," as the GOP is now using it to block legislation that would protect against voter suppression.
The Democrats' failure to make voting rights a top priority may also explain why, in the recent Virginia gubernatorial race, Black voters were a smaller percentage of the electorate (16%) than in 2020 (18%), and only 86% voted for the Democratic candidate compared to 89% who went for Biden in 2020. In a close election, this kind of drop-off can decide the winner.
In 2021, who would have thought -- as Joe Madison put it -- that we'd be engaged in a "new civil rights movement"? But this is where our nation finds itself as the GOP rejects a robust democracy in the pursuit of electoral autocracy.
It's time President Biden and the Democrats make voting rights the top issue in 2022. Biden should travel the country selling it, in addition to publicly -- and very doggedly -- pressuring Senate Democrats to end the filibuster. Biden owes that to the Black community who supported him, and to all Americans who believe that their vote and their voice matters.
15 days and today was the first I heard about it on Maddow...
Joe Madison, known widely as the host of a popular morning talk show on SiriusXM radio as well as a civil rights and human rights activist, has long been an advocate for voting rights. However, the failure to move the John Lewis Voting Rights Act through the Senate because of Republican filibustering is pushing him to take a more drastic step to encourage its passage.
Last week the 72-year-old radio legend, also known as the “Black Eagle” began a hunger strike to send a strong message about why it needs to be passed and that he is willing to continue to go without solid food for as long as it takes.
The Lewis bill would have restored vital provisions of the 1965 Voting Rights Act that protect citizens’ ability to cast ballots. But Republican lawmakers in the Senate stonewalled the legislation using the filibuster, which is simply an extended debate over legislation that would take 60 votes to overcome. Still, Democrats did not have despite having a majority.
Madison realizes that what he is doing does not come without risk, but this is also not his first time using this method of protest. In fact, human rights icon Dick Gregory was a mentor of his, and he had joined him in hunger strikes decades ago.
Madison spoke with BET.com about why he is doing this and what he hopes to accomplish with this strike.
BET.com: There are many ways to protest, such as marches, social media campaigns, boycotts. Why do something so extreme? Why a hunger strike?
Joe Madison: Because what the United States Senate is doing is extreme—this is what it’s going to take. I think that abstaining from eating solid food sends a signal that somebody out here cares.
I always try to relate historically. At the end of the first Reconstruction in 1877, with the Hayes- Tilden compromise, white southerners were very upset with how their political power had changed, and they agreed to strike a deal with [President Rutherford B.] Hayes. That resulted in assassinations, intimidation of Black politicians and citizens and their white allies.
For the next 70 plus years, it literally changed the culture of the South. And it ended, in essence, the first Reconstruction. We are on the verge of what I would refer to as the end of the second Reconstruction.
There have been some parallels. The first thing the Republicans went after in the Senate was our voting rights. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote a decision in Shelby County v. Holder that stripped one of the key provisions from the Voting Rights Act, and immediately the next day, states started introducing voter suppression laws.
Donald Trump loses the presidential election, in large part because of the voting power of Blacks in Georgia, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. After that, legislators in 49 states introduced over 400 voting rights and voter suppression laws, and 19 states enacted voter restriction laws.
So the point I’m making is we are seeing a similar reaction with people in this country who are using voter restriction laws to take away our political power.
BET.com: This is day nine; how are you feeling?
Madison: My spirits are high, but I've done this before. This is not my first rodeo. I've been on hunger strikes with Dick Gregory over the years. That experience taught me a lot. Your body goes through changes but all the changes I had anticipated. So nothing is going on, physically, spiritually, mentally, that I hadn't expected because I knew that there was the possibility that I would be in this for the long haul.
One of the things that I did before taking this form of protest was to get a physical and get a baseline of where I am physically. The only challenge that I thought I might have was a PSA that had spiked a few weeks ago, unrelated to the hunger strike. But the oncologist told me that the hunger strike would not impact any prostate cancer problems that I had experienced. So it's something that everything that I anticipated is pretty much what I'm going through.
BET.com: So the Senate, Democrats in the House have pushed the John Lewis voting rights act through, but it's come up against a brick wall thanks to Republicans and filibustering. Do you think they are taking what you are doing seriously?
Madison: I think we have to admit that it certainly was a low point in Senate history. The Republican senators walked away and rejected our right to have unobstructed voting. That's why I took the position to reject solid food until at least 10 Republican senators would support a fundamental right of our Democracy.
Food is essential to the sustaining of life. Well, so is the vote fundamental to sustaining Democracy. So I can't answer that question, I don't know. Since I began my hunger strike, I haven't heard from a single Republican U.S. Senator. But—and I'm picking my words very carefully—I think it is rather hypocritical of them to suggest that the Black vote is important and then turn around and not protect that right to vote. Plus, state legislators have introduced voter suppression laws that strip our rights away from us.
For example, taking away "Souls To The Polls" in some states; state legislators who are now in the process of redrawing congressional districts and state legislative districts; eliminating congressional seats that are that are important to particularly African Americans like in Texas, redrawing a congressional district that has that has Sheila Jackson Lee running against Al Green and forcing them into court to to prevent that from from happening.
So this is a red herring. They are interested in introducing something that boils down to nothing more than going after and curtailing the Black vote, the vote of young people, and the vote of people with disabilities—therefore limiting the political power of all of the groups mentioned above.
BET.com: I know you're determined and serious. Are there others joining you in the strike?
Madison: I've heard that people have, and people have asked. But I do not encourage that. This is very personal to me. But what I think people need to understand is that this is not about a moment but a movement. The one thing we have to realize is that all movements require sacrifice. So we have to be prepared, all of us, to make whatever sacrifices we think will get us to where we need to go.
I'm doing this in solidarity with organizations that have been demonstrating, like People for the American Way, the NAACP, the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation.
So, this is my way of making not only a political but a moral protest. Hunger strikes are not new. I encourage people to do what they think is best to move the needle on getting either the Republicans to do what's right or support the Democrats that have introduced and voted on the John Lewis bill and are prepared to vote on other voting rights protection.
BET.com: Earlier this year, I would have thought that with Democratic majorities in the House and Senate, voting rights would quickly have passed. But we're going into the 2022 midterms with potential losses in both houses. These bills may be even more threatened. What should the strategy be, then?
Madison: The reason it's been difficult is because of the filibuster. That's why I am encouraging President Biden. He has to clear the path, which means either adjusting or eliminating that archaic rule that the Senate has called the filibuster.
I can tell you that if the House and the Senate switch in the midterm elections, to be honest with you, all bets are off because Donald Trump would, in essence, do what the white southerners did at the end of the first Reconstruction, and we would see our our our voting power diminished.
BET.com: Dick Gregory is the first person who comes to mind when I think of hunger strikes. He's done them for everything from Native American rights to protesting Vietnam to fighting police brutality. What roadmap did he leave you for doing this?
Madison: The roadmap was first a lack of fear, one. Two, he taught me how to meditate, and that's extremely important (laughs). I laugh because food is everywhere. When all of a sudden you abstain from something, you realize how prevalent it is. One of the things he did was put together a team of individuals, doctors, and nutritionists. And I reached out to Christian Gregory, his Son. I talked to him; he and I reviewed Dick's formula.
I'm taking an approach with no solid foods, a lot of meditation, and on and off days with juices and water. And that's the formula that I learned from Dick Gregory. One of the most prolonged hunger strikes that I went on with his guidance was three months.
BET.com: You said you intend to carry this strike forward until the John Lewis Act or the Freedom to Vote Act is passed. That may be a while, so politically, what is your message?
Madison: My message is very clear: There is nothing more important than the vote. I'm saying to you, I'm saying to them, I'm saying to the president of the United States, it is as important if not more important than the infrastructure bill he just signed. The reason I say that is we put that pen in his hand in which he signed that bill into law. Our vote gave him the power to do what he had to do to get this historical transformational bill passed. It all started with the vote.
So that's the message that I'm sending. Voting is essential to maintaining Democracy as food is essential to maintaining life. I don't think it has to be overstated. I don't think it's complicated.
This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.
Last week the 72-year-old radio legend, also known as the “Black Eagle” began a hunger strike to send a strong message about why it needs to be passed and that he is willing to continue to go without solid food for as long as it takes.
The Lewis bill would have restored vital provisions of the 1965 Voting Rights Act that protect citizens’ ability to cast ballots. But Republican lawmakers in the Senate stonewalled the legislation using the filibuster, which is simply an extended debate over legislation that would take 60 votes to overcome. Still, Democrats did not have despite having a majority.
Madison realizes that what he is doing does not come without risk, but this is also not his first time using this method of protest. In fact, human rights icon Dick Gregory was a mentor of his, and he had joined him in hunger strikes decades ago.
Madison spoke with BET.com about why he is doing this and what he hopes to accomplish with this strike.
BET.com: There are many ways to protest, such as marches, social media campaigns, boycotts. Why do something so extreme? Why a hunger strike?
Joe Madison: Because what the United States Senate is doing is extreme—this is what it’s going to take. I think that abstaining from eating solid food sends a signal that somebody out here cares.
I always try to relate historically. At the end of the first Reconstruction in 1877, with the Hayes- Tilden compromise, white southerners were very upset with how their political power had changed, and they agreed to strike a deal with [President Rutherford B.] Hayes. That resulted in assassinations, intimidation of Black politicians and citizens and their white allies.
For the next 70 plus years, it literally changed the culture of the South. And it ended, in essence, the first Reconstruction. We are on the verge of what I would refer to as the end of the second Reconstruction.
There have been some parallels. The first thing the Republicans went after in the Senate was our voting rights. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote a decision in Shelby County v. Holder that stripped one of the key provisions from the Voting Rights Act, and immediately the next day, states started introducing voter suppression laws.
Donald Trump loses the presidential election, in large part because of the voting power of Blacks in Georgia, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. After that, legislators in 49 states introduced over 400 voting rights and voter suppression laws, and 19 states enacted voter restriction laws.
So the point I’m making is we are seeing a similar reaction with people in this country who are using voter restriction laws to take away our political power.
BET.com: This is day nine; how are you feeling?
Madison: My spirits are high, but I've done this before. This is not my first rodeo. I've been on hunger strikes with Dick Gregory over the years. That experience taught me a lot. Your body goes through changes but all the changes I had anticipated. So nothing is going on, physically, spiritually, mentally, that I hadn't expected because I knew that there was the possibility that I would be in this for the long haul.
One of the things that I did before taking this form of protest was to get a physical and get a baseline of where I am physically. The only challenge that I thought I might have was a PSA that had spiked a few weeks ago, unrelated to the hunger strike. But the oncologist told me that the hunger strike would not impact any prostate cancer problems that I had experienced. So it's something that everything that I anticipated is pretty much what I'm going through.
BET.com: So the Senate, Democrats in the House have pushed the John Lewis voting rights act through, but it's come up against a brick wall thanks to Republicans and filibustering. Do you think they are taking what you are doing seriously?
Madison: I think we have to admit that it certainly was a low point in Senate history. The Republican senators walked away and rejected our right to have unobstructed voting. That's why I took the position to reject solid food until at least 10 Republican senators would support a fundamental right of our Democracy.
Food is essential to the sustaining of life. Well, so is the vote fundamental to sustaining Democracy. So I can't answer that question, I don't know. Since I began my hunger strike, I haven't heard from a single Republican U.S. Senator. But—and I'm picking my words very carefully—I think it is rather hypocritical of them to suggest that the Black vote is important and then turn around and not protect that right to vote. Plus, state legislators have introduced voter suppression laws that strip our rights away from us.
For example, taking away "Souls To The Polls" in some states; state legislators who are now in the process of redrawing congressional districts and state legislative districts; eliminating congressional seats that are that are important to particularly African Americans like in Texas, redrawing a congressional district that has that has Sheila Jackson Lee running against Al Green and forcing them into court to to prevent that from from happening.
So this is a red herring. They are interested in introducing something that boils down to nothing more than going after and curtailing the Black vote, the vote of young people, and the vote of people with disabilities—therefore limiting the political power of all of the groups mentioned above.
BET.com: I know you're determined and serious. Are there others joining you in the strike?
Madison: I've heard that people have, and people have asked. But I do not encourage that. This is very personal to me. But what I think people need to understand is that this is not about a moment but a movement. The one thing we have to realize is that all movements require sacrifice. So we have to be prepared, all of us, to make whatever sacrifices we think will get us to where we need to go.
I'm doing this in solidarity with organizations that have been demonstrating, like People for the American Way, the NAACP, the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation.
So, this is my way of making not only a political but a moral protest. Hunger strikes are not new. I encourage people to do what they think is best to move the needle on getting either the Republicans to do what's right or support the Democrats that have introduced and voted on the John Lewis bill and are prepared to vote on other voting rights protection.
BET.com: Earlier this year, I would have thought that with Democratic majorities in the House and Senate, voting rights would quickly have passed. But we're going into the 2022 midterms with potential losses in both houses. These bills may be even more threatened. What should the strategy be, then?
Madison: The reason it's been difficult is because of the filibuster. That's why I am encouraging President Biden. He has to clear the path, which means either adjusting or eliminating that archaic rule that the Senate has called the filibuster.
I can tell you that if the House and the Senate switch in the midterm elections, to be honest with you, all bets are off because Donald Trump would, in essence, do what the white southerners did at the end of the first Reconstruction, and we would see our our our voting power diminished.
BET.com: Dick Gregory is the first person who comes to mind when I think of hunger strikes. He's done them for everything from Native American rights to protesting Vietnam to fighting police brutality. What roadmap did he leave you for doing this?
Madison: The roadmap was first a lack of fear, one. Two, he taught me how to meditate, and that's extremely important (laughs). I laugh because food is everywhere. When all of a sudden you abstain from something, you realize how prevalent it is. One of the things he did was put together a team of individuals, doctors, and nutritionists. And I reached out to Christian Gregory, his Son. I talked to him; he and I reviewed Dick's formula.
I'm taking an approach with no solid foods, a lot of meditation, and on and off days with juices and water. And that's the formula that I learned from Dick Gregory. One of the most prolonged hunger strikes that I went on with his guidance was three months.
BET.com: You said you intend to carry this strike forward until the John Lewis Act or the Freedom to Vote Act is passed. That may be a while, so politically, what is your message?
Madison: My message is very clear: There is nothing more important than the vote. I'm saying to you, I'm saying to them, I'm saying to the president of the United States, it is as important if not more important than the infrastructure bill he just signed. The reason I say that is we put that pen in his hand in which he signed that bill into law. Our vote gave him the power to do what he had to do to get this historical transformational bill passed. It all started with the vote.
So that's the message that I'm sending. Voting is essential to maintaining Democracy as food is essential to maintaining life. I don't think it has to be overstated. I don't think it's complicated.
This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.
The problem with this statement that it presumes to think that we're stupid. We have ACTUAL BLACK ELECTED PEOPLE who don't know what we want? But they know enough about the Dougie & Electric Slide and that we like Hot Sauce?
I keep hearing that "our right to vote" is under attack? What exactly are they doing to obstruct it? I heard about the no water bottle thing. What else is being stopped? Polling stations closed ?
It doesn't matter what they know. It matters what you force them to do.The problem with this statement that it presumes to think that we're stupid. We have ACTUAL BLACK ELECTED PEOPLE who don't know what we want? But they know enough about the Dougie & Electric Slide and that we like Hot Sauce?
Man, if you don't just get to the polls and vote. Jesus. It's for real this time. The sky will fall right through the roof of your brand new electric hummer. It will come close to hitting the pig who is behind you scanning your plates wondering what they can pull you over for. You know, same shit that's has never ever fucking changed and if you're old enough went through when Evander was waiting for Mike to get out the bing.
Yep. Pretty much
Gtfoh!
He only talk loud and bold if it's for immigrants and homos
Soft spoken because he soft shoeing!
Basically he said
Stay yo stupid ass home and that's one less Trump vote. Nothing we do will ever change you. You just a coon at heart. Stand with us or against us is what we need to do. Expel all you coons.
There is too much feminine energy influencing decision making in the so-called black community which is why so many decisions are based on emotion, not logic. I call it out all the time, and the fact is no more apparent than how Biden is actually doing a worse job than Trump but the emotional can’t admit it.
Nothing will ever change if YOU don’t change. It is insanity to expect a different result when you do the same thing over and over again. You agents / pro-whites have lost your grip and losing support by the second.
This guy Malcoon Nance was/is a REAL agent and people trust he is for so-called black empowerment.
having a white wife and kids is why he is pro-Democrat. Agents are pawns that do what they are told.
There have been numerous requests for specific "tangibles." However, most democratic supporters as well as the party itself tell black folk the same thing every election cycle. Wait.
You want examples of tangible? Start here......
And the same poster, @Darrkman claimed Ice Cube was a Trump supporter yet what Democratic stumper proposed a similar plan? These coons try the misdirection tactics but they just don’t work anymore.
Unfortunately, that's right out of the playbook. If a person doesn't 100% fall in line with all Democratic ideals, then they default to calling you a Trumper or republican in hopes of keeping other black folks from seeing the truth and thinking for themselves.
Can someone find a list of Black Independents running for office in 2022? Local, Statewide, or Federal?
Biden continues to shit on black voters.
Democrats will do everything for every other group. But you fools rush out and line up to vote and they shit on you and tell you some bullshit about they don’t have the money for reparations.
Democrats will do everything for every other group. But you fools rush out and line up to vote and they shit on you and tell you some bullshit about they don’t have the money for reparations.
'Historic': White House pitches Build Back Better's help for Latino families
It would cut costs for three of the most expensive items in families’ budgets: health care, housing and child care, Democrats say.
Nov. 22, 2021, 8:40 PM EST / Updated Nov. 22, 2021, 10:41 PM EST
By Suzanne Gamboa
The White House on Monday promoted what the Biden administration sees as the benefits for Latino families of the $1.7 trillion safety net and climate change package Democrats passed last week.
In a White House-organized call with reporters, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra and Rep. Raul Ruiz, D-Calif., the chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, called the legislation "historic" and said it was a "tremendous investment" in American families as they struggle to recover from the coronavirus-wracked economy.
Becerra said the funding in the Build Back Better Act would help families pay for child care and preschool education funding, provide child tax credits and help families pay for Obamacare health insurance plans.
It would cut costs for three of the most expensive items in families’ budgets: health care, housing and child care, Ruiz said.
Ruiz and Becerra said the child care provision — which would cap child care costs for six years at 7 percent for families earning up to 250 percent of their states’ median incomes — would help Latinas “who had to bear the brunt of cuts in wages and unemployment” because of the pandemic.
Extending the child tax credit would be like money in your pocket, Ruiz said.
Also in the bill is money to pay for universal pre-K for 3- and 4-year-old children for two years. The money is said to be enough to pay for free preschool for more than 6 million children.
Becerra said the bill offers older Americans the kind of help that his late father, a laborer, and his mother, who did clerical work, never had.
“I’m from a migrant family, and I understand the importance of being able to say anyone who has worked very hard, helping to lift this country, helping to build it, now this country is going to invest in you, Becerra said in Spanish.
Ruiz said that while the country is rounding the corner on the pandemic, Covid-19 has disproportionately affected essential workers and Hispanic communities. "Working families and parents are continuing to feel the lingering effects of the pandemic," he said.
The legislation, which was crafted by Democrats, was approved Friday by the House and is now before the Senate, where leaders are working with centrist Democrats to get the necessary votes.
‘A blockbuster’ investment
The House bill would provide the money for pre-K for all children, regardless of families’ incomes, with states eventually having to add money to cover some of the costs.
Before the pandemic, about 27 percent of children in public school were Hispanic. In 2019-20, only about 4 in 10 (43 percent) of 3- to 5-year-olds were enrolled in school, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.
The pre-K provisions would help not only groups that haven’t had access to quality pre-K, but also middle-class and upper-income families that often don’t qualify for subsidized preschool programs, said former San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro, who was housing secretary in the Obama administration.
Castro, the only major Latino presidential candidate last year, said the universal pre-K part of the bill would be “a godsend” for many families and a “blockbuster” investment to celebrate.
Early education varies among states, six of which had no state-funded pre-K program in the 2019-20 school year, according to the National Institute for Early Education Research at Rutgers University.
Early data this school year show a 3 percent drop in all public school enrollment. The drop was higher among children in preschool and kindergarten than in later grades.
Build Back Better’s success depends on states’ doing their part, Castro said. As mayor, Castro got San Antonio voters to support a half-cent sales tax in 2012 to create quality preschool for low-income children. The program is considered highly successful.
Build Back Better’s provision would allow school districts or nonprofit organizations to help with costs for their areas even if their states don’t participate.
“I’m hopeful that even conservative states like Texas and other places that don’t have universal pre-K will meet the challenge,” Castro said. “But if they don’t, then I encourage local communities to go ahead and universalize pre-K.”
Better times ahead?
Delivering a message of economic better times to the Latino community is critical for Democrats.
The 2022 midterm election season will ramp up after the holidays, and Democrats need to be able blunt GOP arguments about inflation and the effects of climate change provisions on fossil fuels.
President Donald Trump and other Republicans expanded their support on those issues last year among Latino voters, particularly in Texas. They also succeeded in framing Democratic programs as socialism, largely in Florida, where Cuban and Latin American voters connect the word with regimes from which they fled or in which have roots.
Macarena Martinez, the Republican National Committee spokeswoman for Texas, previewed more of what to expect in a statement after the House vote Friday.
She said one African American and three Latino members of Congress, all Texas Democrats, "went all in for Biden's socialist agenda: 'Build Back Broke' at a time when Texas families already are being hit with skyrocketing inflation, record high gas prices, and an unmitigated border crisis."
Latino unemployment began dropping in 2010 during the Obama administration and fell to about 4 percent early in the Trump administration. Latinos also had begun to experience a comeback from the Great Recession. The pandemic reversed that.
The uncontrolled virus has put the Latino economic recovery at risk and cost some Latinos some of the wealth they had rebuilt.
Latinos are 2.1 times more likely to die from Covid-19 compared to white Americans and 2.5 times more likely to be hospitalized, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Cases of Covid-19 are 1.6 times more likely among Latinos than whites, the CDC data show.
As of April, only 1 in 6 Hispanic workers were able to work from home during the pandemic, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
In addition, Democrats need to buffer themselves from backlash they could face over immigration provisions in the bill.
Immigrants advocates and many Democrats had hoped to include a pathway to citizenship in the legislation. But it would now provide only five-year work permits that could be renewed for five more years for about 7 million undocumented immigrants already in the county. If that is jettisoned to get the bill through the Senate, Democrats may feel the backlash from their base of support.
Democrats are using a process to get the bill through the Senate that allows them to sidestep Republicans, most of whom oppose the immigration measures.
But they also have to get the OK to have the immigration language in the bill from the Senate parliamentarian, and at least two Senate Democrats are lukewarm about the immigration provision, as well. The Congressional Hispanic Caucus has urged the Senate to keep the provision.
The White House and Democrats put the focus Monday on legislation that they believe would have a direct impact on Latino households.
Ruiz said the legislation would be a “rocket booster for the economy that will launch families across the country towards success by putting money in pockets.”
'Historic': White House pitches Build Back Better's help for Latino families
It would cut costs for three of the most expensive items in families’ budgets: health care, housing and child care, Democrats say.
www.nbcnews.com
Someone did an infographic for the fact sheet.
I don't care for 'Business as Usual' Biden but there it is.
Is there a point to this? I'm pretty sure I posted some of the infrastructure benefits that were target toward black communities already. We aren't the only race in this country or the only community that will see benefits.
'Historic': White House pitches Build Back Better's help for Latino families
It would cut costs for three of the most expensive items in families’ budgets: health care, housing and child care, Democrats say.
Nov. 22, 2021, 8:40 PM EST / Updated Nov. 22, 2021, 10:41 PM EST
By Suzanne Gamboa
The White House on Monday promoted what the Biden administration sees as the benefits for Latino families of the $1.7 trillion safety net and climate change package Democrats passed last week.
In a White House-organized call with reporters, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra and Rep. Raul Ruiz, D-Calif., the chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, called the legislation "historic" and said it was a "tremendous investment" in American families as they struggle to recover from the coronavirus-wracked economy.
Becerra said the funding in the Build Back Better Act would help families pay for child care and preschool education funding, provide child tax credits and help families pay for Obamacare health insurance plans.
It would cut costs for three of the most expensive items in families’ budgets: health care, housing and child care, Ruiz said.
Ruiz and Becerra said the child care provision — which would cap child care costs for six years at 7 percent for families earning up to 250 percent of their states’ median incomes — would help Latinas “who had to bear the brunt of cuts in wages and unemployment” because of the pandemic.
Extending the child tax credit would be like money in your pocket, Ruiz said.
Also in the bill is money to pay for universal pre-K for 3- and 4-year-old children for two years. The money is said to be enough to pay for free preschool for more than 6 million children.
Becerra said the bill offers older Americans the kind of help that his late father, a laborer, and his mother, who did clerical work, never had.
“I’m from a migrant family, and I understand the importance of being able to say anyone who has worked very hard, helping to lift this country, helping to build it, now this country is going to invest in you, Becerra said in Spanish.
Ruiz said that while the country is rounding the corner on the pandemic, Covid-19 has disproportionately affected essential workers and Hispanic communities. "Working families and parents are continuing to feel the lingering effects of the pandemic," he said.
The legislation, which was crafted by Democrats, was approved Friday by the House and is now before the Senate, where leaders are working with centrist Democrats to get the necessary votes.
‘A blockbuster’ investment
The House bill would provide the money for pre-K for all children, regardless of families’ incomes, with states eventually having to add money to cover some of the costs.
Before the pandemic, about 27 percent of children in public school were Hispanic. In 2019-20, only about 4 in 10 (43 percent) of 3- to 5-year-olds were enrolled in school, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.
The pre-K provisions would help not only groups that haven’t had access to quality pre-K, but also middle-class and upper-income families that often don’t qualify for subsidized preschool programs, said former San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro, who was housing secretary in the Obama administration.
Castro, the only major Latino presidential candidate last year, said the universal pre-K part of the bill would be “a godsend” for many families and a “blockbuster” investment to celebrate.
Early education varies among states, six of which had no state-funded pre-K program in the 2019-20 school year, according to the National Institute for Early Education Research at Rutgers University.
Early data this school year show a 3 percent drop in all public school enrollment. The drop was higher among children in preschool and kindergarten than in later grades.
Build Back Better’s success depends on states’ doing their part, Castro said. As mayor, Castro got San Antonio voters to support a half-cent sales tax in 2012 to create quality preschool for low-income children. The program is considered highly successful.
Build Back Better’s provision would allow school districts or nonprofit organizations to help with costs for their areas even if their states don’t participate.
“I’m hopeful that even conservative states like Texas and other places that don’t have universal pre-K will meet the challenge,” Castro said. “But if they don’t, then I encourage local communities to go ahead and universalize pre-K.”
Better times ahead?
Delivering a message of economic better times to the Latino community is critical for Democrats.
The 2022 midterm election season will ramp up after the holidays, and Democrats need to be able blunt GOP arguments about inflation and the effects of climate change provisions on fossil fuels.
President Donald Trump and other Republicans expanded their support on those issues last year among Latino voters, particularly in Texas. They also succeeded in framing Democratic programs as socialism, largely in Florida, where Cuban and Latin American voters connect the word with regimes from which they fled or in which have roots.
Macarena Martinez, the Republican National Committee spokeswoman for Texas, previewed more of what to expect in a statement after the House vote Friday.
She said one African American and three Latino members of Congress, all Texas Democrats, "went all in for Biden's socialist agenda: 'Build Back Broke' at a time when Texas families already are being hit with skyrocketing inflation, record high gas prices, and an unmitigated border crisis."
Latino unemployment began dropping in 2010 during the Obama administration and fell to about 4 percent early in the Trump administration. Latinos also had begun to experience a comeback from the Great Recession. The pandemic reversed that.
The uncontrolled virus has put the Latino economic recovery at risk and cost some Latinos some of the wealth they had rebuilt.
Latinos are 2.1 times more likely to die from Covid-19 compared to white Americans and 2.5 times more likely to be hospitalized, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Cases of Covid-19 are 1.6 times more likely among Latinos than whites, the CDC data show.
As of April, only 1 in 6 Hispanic workers were able to work from home during the pandemic, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
In addition, Democrats need to buffer themselves from backlash they could face over immigration provisions in the bill.
Immigrants advocates and many Democrats had hoped to include a pathway to citizenship in the legislation. But it would now provide only five-year work permits that could be renewed for five more years for about 7 million undocumented immigrants already in the county. If that is jettisoned to get the bill through the Senate, Democrats may feel the backlash from their base of support.
Democrats are using a process to get the bill through the Senate that allows them to sidestep Republicans, most of whom oppose the immigration measures.
But they also have to get the OK to have the immigration language in the bill from the Senate parliamentarian, and at least two Senate Democrats are lukewarm about the immigration provision, as well. The Congressional Hispanic Caucus has urged the Senate to keep the provision.
The White House and Democrats put the focus Monday on legislation that they believe would have a direct impact on Latino households.
Ruiz said the legislation would be a “rocket booster for the economy that will launch families across the country towards success by putting money in pockets.”
'Historic': White House pitches Build Back Better's help for Latino families
It would cut costs for three of the most expensive items in families’ budgets: health care, housing and child care, Democrats say.
Hilarious. So bills don't help black people unless they are ONLY for black people, but the benefits in this article are special treatment for Latinos even tho black folks and everyone else gets them too? Change the headline from Latino to black and it's essentially unchanged, but suddenly not good enough.
SMH.
We're the only race that doesn't have bills target specifically for us
I have a few problems with this graphic. It appears the plan does nothing to address the wealth gap. It only positions us to be better renters. It only saves some up to $50 a month on health insurance if they can afford it. Do they have any idea how much a medical plan for a family of four cost now? What about if they can't?
Someone did an infographic for the fact sheet.
I don't care for 'Business as Usual' Biden but there it is.
Yup they can’t name 1 bill or executive order specially for blacks. But I can find bills for Asians, LGBT, Native Americans, Latinos, etc, shit Biden the fool even wanted to give illegal aliens $450,000. People that are NOT even American. When is Biden going to sit with ice cube ?
But when it comes to blacks that put you in office. All you get is bullshitting and lift every voice and sing.
But I can’t blame democrats. You got black that still want to bullshit and defend Biden instead of just being real and stop being scared to speak up. Being real instead of living in denial is why the black community is in the condition it’s in.
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