Frustration with Voting Rights Legislation

[JustAnotherGen]

Posted in AfAm Group -

I appreciate the obsession with DOJ investigation of the 1/6 Coup Attempt.

I appreciate the Progressive leadership having a variety of goals and objectives outside of basic civil rights.

I appreciate the hanging on every word of the GOP disruptors.

But folks - I know how it is going to go next November if we don't have FTP(HR 1) and JLVRA (HR 4) enacted ASAP.

Incessant whining about black people not showing up to the polls. Non stop finger pointing at Us.

If we don't get push to get this done - 2020 might very well be the last vote many of my family members in the deep South will have been ALLOWED to cast. Even my family members in the greater Atlanta metro region may be able to vote - but have their votes thrown out because of the color of their skin.

It's enough. Just at a loss with our fellow Democratics who I'm getting the impression aren't getting the message - No black votes - Democratic Party Members in Government.

Thanks for letting me vent.

[alwaysinasnit]

1. +1000

[LoisB]

2. 100%.

[brer cat]

3. I agree.

They are not chipping away at voting rights, they are blowing them up for PoC.

[JustAnotherGen]

4. The states are doing it along partisan lines

IE - GOP lining up to do the Leaderships Bidding.

It's been done. The only thing that can stop this return to Jim Crow is a strong full court press from Federal Democrats.

[old as dirt]

5. If I may vent, further.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/118769518

Fear of the African hoards and the American hoards, and perhaps, of a second Haiti.

Black folks might vote themselves out of slavery.

The fear is hundreds of years old here in America.

[old as dirt]

6. Don't get me wrong.

The mere fact that my wife's culture (the bandits of Patia) would be mentioned in an english source is frickin' awesome!

It's not like I was expecting the reference to be complimentary.

An enourmous problem for las culturas afrocolombianas all over Colombia is la invisibilidad, and this one english reference helps to counter that, for several culturas afrocolombianas, including my wife's.

My wife's ancestors may have been cattle rustlers for more than a century, but over time, their neighbors learned to treat their slaves better, if only to limit losses of cattle.

[JustAnotherGen]

7. Excellent references

I guess on the issue of Voting Rights - I'm solely focused on those of us who descend from Jim Crow in the USA. Our experience is very unique - in that we had promises made, and those promises aren't being kept.

Furthermore - I also descend from enslaved people in the deep South. One was a runaway to Mexico - who came home to buy Miss Gracie - and instead bought the land he had been enslaved on. Like -

My dad's family pre-dates a whole lot of folks of European descent who didn't 'build' America - and I'm beginning to really RESENT their descendants being in my way.

They are in my way.