Happy Midterm Elections week to our SwagHer family.
This morning the Washington Post reported that the campaign loss of Andrew Gillum in Florida and Stacy Abrams in Georgia should prompt the Black American community to do some soul-searching. This is because top Black celebrities such as Oprah Winfrey and former President Barack Obama who came out to rally for these candidates supposedly did nothing to motivate the Black vote.
What happened on Election Day?
Voter suppression in key counties. Days before the polls had even opened, moderate and conservative news outlets began their reporting of what the Black person is going to say the day after the Election. They said the reason we even go to the polls is because we are angry and we are butt-hurt. They didn’t mention any of the last minute legal loopholes that had occurred making it much more harder for voters to cast ballots in key counties. Key meaning every vote has to be counted fairly for the results to yield accurately. Not like how they keep claiming Hillary lost her election when she got more overall votes over President Trump. They scammed Facebook ads during the 2016 Presidential Elections to ensure targeting of voters who were not going to vote at all. The oppressed will always be viewed as weaken by the suppressed. Andrew Gillum and Stacy Abrams got folks to the polls based off hard work, campaign bucks, and MERIT. We went on Twitter to see if any of this was true.
https://twitter.com/Freeyourmindkid/status/1060324239306354693
https://twitter.com/colinkalmbacher/status/1060569299402809344
This tweet from The Hill quoting Sen. Bernie Sanders is a mouthful:
We have to reach both sides of the spectrum.
Being Black is only one part of who we can be. Yes we need to work on our own communities but we do not own any communities. So, where do you go? Find an ally. Studying at an all white university let me see how much more my community lacked in the sector of understanding. We can no longer let them right our stories. We already know what the headline is going to say. We need to reach out the white community and other marginalized groups to find out how we can grow together. We are disenfranchised and it is because we do not believe in ourselves because of what the country has said about us. This is our country as well. If we want it to look better for our children then we have to fix it. Martin Luther King Jr and Rosa Parks found a way to come together. We have all the tools in our arsenal.
Why did you vote?
