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In reply to the discussion: Black Voters Arent Turning Out For The Post-Obama Democratic Party [View all]brush
(54,241 posts)the numerous other vote suppression tactics of the repugs that target POC voters, especially AA voters?
It's sickening to me how these memes get started and perpetuated on DU by alleged progressives who should know better.
Perez and the DNC and the Democratic Party should have immediately set up a standing, permanent, well-funded committee to combat repug cheating staffed with the best legal, investigative, media liaisons and volunteer help possible to stop the cheating.
It should be as robust as our GOTV effort because getting out the vote can easily become a wash by the determined repug effort to stop us from voting.
It's not rocket science. We've known of this repug cheating since Gore at least but still no official recognition or effort to combat it, but like clockwork we still get these dumb threads trying to blame black people for us losing elections. We're also to blame, according to these underminers, for Hillary having lost even though 90 some percent of black voters voted Democratic. No other ethnic group even got close to that percentage.