The Year Of Voting Rights

Stakes is extremely high, so don’t wait

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The state of voting rights in America, for everyone, and especially for African Americans haven’t been this dire in 57 years. That is the year the Voting Rights Act was passed. This is the year African Americans were mowed over and beaten on that Alabama bridge marching peacefully for the right to vote. Just to vote.

Those rights are now no longer guaranteed. The Republicans are taking away the rights or trying to do so with state laws. State after state, in GOP control, has enacted a voter suppression law.

While they are masked as Voter Id laws or other so called goodwill gestures, they aren’t. These are poison pills in your drink when you turned your back.

Here is a quote from right after the 2020 election that says it all:

“If Republicans don’t challenge and change the U.S. election system, there will never be another Republican president elected again.”

— Senator Lindsey Graham

Graham knows. He is anti-democracy. He knows the power of the African American vote.

William Buckley, the late writer, knew in 1966 what lay ahead when the Voting Rights Act began to work.

“For some reason, it has been hailed as a triumph of democratic…