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The Votes of Black Americans Should Count Twice
The Nation ^ | December 17, 2020 | Brandon Hasbrouck

Posted on 12/19/2020 10:59:43 AM PST by Trump20162020

Vote reparations would empower us to replace oppressive institutions with life-affirming structures of equality.

Black votes in this country are worth less than white votes. Joe Biden won the Electoral College because Black voters in Atlanta, Detroit, Milwaukee, and Philadelphia turned out in significant numbers. But even with overwhelming Black support—94 percent of Detroit voted for Biden!—the outcomes in Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania were worryingly close.

One core problem is the Electoral College. Wyoming, which has just 580,000 residents and is 93 percent white, gets three electors because of its two senators and one representative in the House. By comparison, Georgia’s Fifth Congressional District—which includes Atlanta, has 710,000 residents, and is 58 percent Black—has no dedicated electors or senators and can only occasionally overcome the mostly white and conservative votes from elsewhere in the state. This devaluation of Black votes allows our political system to ignore Black lives, and the consequences are devastating. Unequal representation has led to unequal health care outcomes, which the Covid-19 pandemic has only worsened. Without sufficient voting power, Black communities receive substandard education, and politicians are free to appoint judges who sanction mass incarceration, abusive policing, and electoral disenfranchisement.

(Excerpt) Read more at thenation.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: black; blacknationalist; blacks; brandonhasbrouck; civilrights; discrimination; racist; reparations
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To: Trump20162020

I thought this was from the Babylon Bee! Guess not.


81 posted on 12/19/2020 1:33:53 PM PST by FormerFRLurker (Keep calm and vote your conscience.)
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To: Trump20162020

Twice is probably only half of what is counted in select counties.


82 posted on 12/19/2020 1:36:01 PM PST by Moonlighter
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To: Kazan

You forgot Pittsburgh,Ann Arbor and Madison.


83 posted on 12/19/2020 1:41:03 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (STOLEN ELECTION 2020)
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To: Trump20162020
Joe Biden won the Electoral College because Black voters in Atlanta, Detroit, Milwaukee, and Philadelphia turned out in significant numbers.

They didn't "turn out" to vote. Somebody may have collected their ballots, somebody may have filled them in, but they didn't turn out to vote.

84 posted on 12/19/2020 1:41:16 PM PST by Sooth2222 ("A conservative is a liberal who got mugged the night before" - Frank Rizzo)
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To: Trump20162020
LMAO,toilet paper "journalism".

These fools who write this type of trash are lunatics.

85 posted on 12/19/2020 1:44:10 PM PST by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Texas Eagle

They voted within the normal voting period. Because of horrific anti-black racial discrimination (among black gangsters and Black Lives Matter terrorists), however, those neighborhoods suffer from terrible road conditions (principally, drive-by shootings, mobs blocking the streets, carjackings, makeshift barricades, and broken glass and dropped loot littering the street). Therefore, despite the best efforts of the vote drivers (to navigate around these pervasive road hazards), the ballot boxes arrived in the counting centers only several hours after votes closed. Terrible weather (specifically, comfortably warm temperatures and mostly clear skies, ideal weather for criminal and partisan terrorist activities) contributed to the delays.


86 posted on 12/19/2020 1:48:16 PM PST by dufekin
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To: Still Thinking

Actually, black Americans should increase their vote share via the following three-point plan:

(1) Quit killing your babies. Dead people cannot vote, and abortions kill most Americans of African descent today. So get married and then procreate and rear and educate your children.

(2) Stop the gangs. Gangs of black boys, mostly without fathers, terrorize black communities and kill, maim, and injure other black persons. In many terrible black neighborhoods, gang violence cuts life expectancy severely.
Fathers, love your sons, and rear them in the way of God.
And teach them the meaning of the commandment, “Thou shalt not kill.”

(3) Quit committing felonies and stay off drugs. Go to church instead. Many states forbid the incarcerated, those on probation, and those convicted of felonies to vote. If you value your political influence, then just don’t do the crime. And drugs contribute to felonious crime and make you too stupid to think straight in the voting booth if somehow you remember to go thither.

In reality, despite these problems, black Americans usually vote in high numbers, proportionally more than those of other racial demographics. But they could double their vote share if they only refused Planned Parenthood and its fellow killers of preborn babies.


87 posted on 12/19/2020 1:57:26 PM PST by dufekin
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To: Trump20162020

....would empower us to replace oppressive institutions with life-affirming structures of equality.


This is code for.....give us free sh!t just because of our skin color.


88 posted on 12/19/2020 2:09:25 PM PST by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: Trump20162020

You’re stuck at 12.5% of the population because of your propensity to murder your children in the womb and each other in the street.


89 posted on 12/19/2020 2:29:32 PM PST by Feckless (The US Gubbmint / This Tagline CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
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To: Trump20162020

More endless race racketeering!


90 posted on 12/19/2020 3:02:40 PM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: Trump20162020

The Nation, a left-wing PIECE OF CRAP that makes the NYT look conservative...


91 posted on 12/19/2020 4:06:05 PM PST by Deplorable American1776 (We might be DEPLORABLES, but we don't CHEAT like Dems)
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To: Trump20162020

dark skinned people are the most racist.

JoMa


92 posted on 12/19/2020 5:14:47 PM PST by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: Rainwave

I agree.......but my post was sarcasm.
One person one vote. Period.


93 posted on 12/19/2020 5:50:57 PM PST by David Chase
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Black communities receive substandard education, and politicians are free to appoint judges who sanction mass incarceration, abusive policing, and electoral disenfranchisement.

Mark this moment!

The writer mentions "mass incarceration" thanks to the Clinton/Biden crime bill... and yet their answer is to vote for the man who looked them in the eye and said "You ain't black" if you don't vote for him.

94 posted on 12/19/2020 10:13:32 PM PST by newzjunkey (Purdue in GA for the Senate - Vote Giant Meteor in 2020)
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