Republicans blatantly attempting (and succeeding) to erase the black vote in Georgia

[Ski Mask]

Im not getting the argument the don't vote crowd is making. I mean, letting those who are stripping our right to vote away, stay in power is kind counterproductive seeing as if they succeed then it wouldn't matter if the perfect politician ran, cause we wouldn't be able to vote for that person

 

[Tribal Outkast]

You sound ignorant. White supremacists aren't already in the White House?

Vote to do what? More unarmed blacks were killed by police officers under Obama than any other president, and more blacks were incarcerated under Clinton than any other president. If you got out of your feelings, and read my entire post, it says clearly that I'm not against voting if we have a clear agenda and demand something out of our candidates. I'm tired of people voting simply because we're scared of what white supremacists are going to do.

White supremacist have been running Congress long before they tried to restrict votes in a 7000 Person County. Black folks will never wake up.

And that stuff is still happening now but people are more concerned with getting Trump out of here than talking about that stuff... Could’ve kept his ass away in the first place.

 

[Micky Mikey]

This is why it is imperative for the black community to be just as politically aware as we should be economically. These people play the long game and will find any obscure loop hole in the system to disenfranchise you. One day we'll wake up and have every right that our ancestors bled for revoked. And we wont even know how or when it happened.

 

[Cadillac]

Everything You Need to Vote - Vote.org


Confirm that you are still registered in your state. You can also register through this site.

My cousin is looking to register

Is this a safe site for him to use

 

[dj-method-x]

We're suppose to vote for someone simply because she's black? Remember Barack? How did that work out?

Worked out pretty well actually

Progress of the African-American Community During the Obama Administration


Key Accomplishments

Labor Market, Income and Poverty

• The unemployment rate for African Americans peaked at 16.8 percent in March 2010, after experiencing a larger percentage-point increase from its pre-recession average to its peak than the overall unemployment rate did. Since then, the African-American unemployment rate has seen a larger percentage-point decline in the recovery, falling much faster than the overall unemployment rate over the last year.
  
  
• The real median income of black households increased by 4.1 percent between 2014 and 2015.
  
  
• The President enacted permanent expansions of the Earned Income Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit, which together now provide about 2 million African-American working families with an average tax cut of about $1,000 each.
  
  
• A recent report from the Census Bureau shows the remarkable progress that American families have made as the recovery continues to strengthen. Real median household income grew 5.2 percent from 2014 to 2015, the fastest annual growth on record. Income grew for households across the income distribution, with the fastest growth among lower- and middle-income households. The number of people in poverty fell by 3.5 million, leading the poverty rate to fall from 14.8 percent to 13.5 percent, the largest one-year drop since 1968, with even larger improvements including for African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and children.
  
  
• The poverty rate for African Americans fell faster in 2015 than in any year since 1999.While the poverty rate fell for across all racial and ethnic groups this year, it fell 2.1 percentage points (p.p.) for African Americans, resulting in 700,000 fewer African Americans in poverty.
  
  
• African American children also made large gains in 2015, with the poverty rate falling 4.2 percentage points and 400,000 fewer children in poverty.

Health

• Since the start of Affordable Care Act's first open enrollment period at the end of 2013, the uninsured rate among non-elderly African Americans has declined by more than half.Over that period, about 3 million uninsured nonelderly, African-American adults gained health coverage.
  
  
• Teen pregnancy among African-American women is at an historic low. The birth rate per 1,000 African-American teen females has fallen from 60.4 in 2008, before President Obama entered office, to 34.9 in 2014.
  
  
• Life expectancy at birth is the highest it’s ever been for African Americans. In 2014, life expectancy at birth was 72.5 years for African-American males and 78.4 for African-American females, the highest point in the historical series for both genders.

Education

• The high school graduation rate for African-American students is at its highest point in history. In the 2013-2014 academic year, 72.5 percent of African-American public high school students graduated within four years.
  
  
• Since the President took office, over one million more black and Hispanic students enrolled in college.
  
  
• Among African-Americans and Hispanic students 25 and older, high school completion is higher than ever before. Among African Americans, Hispanics, and Asian students 25 and older, Bachelor’s degree attainment is higher than ever before. As of 2015, 88 percent of the African-American population 25 and older had at least a high school degree and 23percent had at least a Bachelor’s degree.

Support for HBCUs

• The U.S. Department of Education (ED) is responsible for funding more than $4 billion for HBCUs each year.
  
  
• Pell Grant funding for HBCU students increased significantly between 2007 and 2014, growing from $523 million to $824 million.
  
  
• The President’s FY 2017 budget request proposes a new, $30 million competitive grant program, called the HBCU and Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) Innovation for Completion Fund, designed to support innovative and evidence-based, student-centered strategies and interventions to increase the number of low-income students completing degree programs at HBCUs and MSIs.
  
  
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• While Congress did not fund the program in fiscal year 2016, the President’s 2017 budget request includes $100 million for the First in the World program, with up to $30 million set aside for HBCUs and MSIs.

Criminal Justice

• The incarceration rates for African-American men and women fell during each year of the Obama Administration and are at their lowest points in over two decades. The imprisonment rates for African-American men and women were at their lowest points since the early 1990s and late 1980s, respectively, of 2014, the latest year for which Bureau of Justice Statistics data are available.
  
  
• The number of juveniles in secure detention has been reduced dramatically over the last decade. The number of juveniles committed or detained, a disproportionate number of whom are African American, fell more than 30% between 2007 and 2013.
  
  
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My Brother’s Keeper

• President Obama launched the My Brother’s Keeper initiative on February 27, 2014 to address persistent opportunity gaps faced by boys and young men of color and ensure that all young people can reach their full potential.
  
  
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• In May 2014, the MBK Task Force gave President Obama nearly 80 recommendations to address persistent opportunity gaps faced by young people, including boys and young men of color. Agencies have been working individually and collectively since to respond to recommendations with federal policy initiatives, grant programs, and guidance. Today, more than 80% of MBK Task Force Recommendations are complete or on track.

Advancing Equity for Women and Girls of Color

• In 2014, the Council on Women and Girls (CWG) launched a specific work stream called “Advancing Equity for Women and Girls of Color” to ensure that policies and programs across the federal government appropriately take into account the unique obstacles that women and girls of color can face. In fall 2015, CWG released a report that identified five data-driven issue areas where interventions can promote opportunities for success at school, work, and in the community.
  
  
• This work has also inspired independent commitments to advance equity, including a $100 million, 5-year-funding initiative by Prosperity Together—a coalition of women’s foundations—to improve economic prosperity for low-income women and women and girls of color and a $75 million funding commitment by the Collaborative to Advance Equity through Research—an affiliation of American colleges, universities, research organizations, publishers and public interest institutions led by Wake Forest University—to support existing and new research efforts about women and girls of color.
  
  
• At the United State of Women Summit in June 2016, eight organizations launched “Young Women’s Initiatives,” place-based, data-driven programs that will focus in on the local needs of young women of color. Those organizations include the Women’s Foundation of Minnesota, the Women’s Foundation of California, the Women's Foundation for a Greater Memphis, the Washington Area Women’s Foundation, the Dallas Women’s Foundation, the Women’s Fund of Greater Birmingham, the Women’s Fund of Western Massachusetts, and the New York Women’s Foundation.

Small Business

• There are 8 million minority-owned firms in the U.S.—a 38% increase since 2007.
  
  
• In early 2015, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) launched the MBK Millennial Entrepreneurs Initiative, which seeks to address the challenges faced by underserved millennials, including boys and young men of color, through self-employment and entrepreneurship. A major component of this effort included the six-part video series, titled “Biz My Way,” which encourages millennials to follow their passion in business.
  
  
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Civil Rights Division

• The Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division continued to enforce federal law.Over the last eight years, the Division has vigorously protected the civil rights of individuals in housing, lending, employment, voting, education, and disability rights and through hate crimes and law enforcement misconduct prosecutions and law enforcement pattern and practice cases.

African-American Judicial Appointees

• President Obama has made 62 lifetime appointments of African Americans to serve on the federal bench.
  
  
• This includes 9 African-American circuit court judges.
  
  
• It also includes the appointment of 53 African American district court judges—including 26 African-American women appointed to the federal court, which is more African-American women appointed by any President in history.
  
  
• In total, 19% of the President’s confirmed judges have been African American, compared to 16% under President Bill Clinton and 7% under President George W. Bush.
  
  
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• Also, the President appointed the first Haitian-American lifetime-appointed federal judge, the first Afro-Caribbean-born district judge, the first African-American female circuit judge in the Sixth Circuit, and the first African-American circuit judge on the First Circuit (who was also the first African-American female lifetime-appointed federal judge to serve anywhere in the First Circuit).
  
  
• The President is committed to continuing to ensure diversity on the federal bench. This year, the President nominated Myra Selby of Indiana to the Seventh Circuit, Abdul Kallon of Alabama to the Eleventh Circuit, and Rebecca Haywood of Pennsylvania to the Third Circuit. If confirmed, each of these would be a judicial first—Myra Selby would be the first African-American circuit judge from Indiana, Abdul Kallon would be the first African-American circuit judge from Alabama, and Rebecca Haywood would be the first African-American woman on the Third Circuit.In addition, two of the President’s district court nominees—Stephanie Finely and Patricia Timmons-Goodson—would be the first African-American lifetime-appointed federal judges in each of their respective districts, if confirmed.

 

[The Fade]

Why is Kemp so pressed if our vote doesn’t matter. He sounds scared

 

[Zero]

Do you all actually care about the voter suppression or just using this as some irrelevant point scoring in a silly internet debate? This shyt is outrageous but most of the vitriol seems to be toward ignorant coli posters instead of the people, you know, doing the stuff.

You already know

 

[JJ Evans]

We're suppose to vote for someone simply because she's black? Remember Barack? How did that work out? Sharpe James? Coleman Young? Do nikkas like you ever learn?

You just replied with a typical undercover racist white person post

 

[JamilALAmin]

idk anything about georgia state politics, does she have a real chance?

She shouldn't have a chance, but she actually does. Just the right demographics for it to be some fuccery, just gotta get people out to vote, and the Cacs know that, which is why they doing shyt like this. She sharp as a tack too tho, at the end of the day she's a heavy set homley looking sister from Decatur. She a smart ass round the way girl who went to the right schools after HS and did the right things. The simple fact she is who she is and is where she is now is a testament to how much anything really can happen. She like the female version of Obama if he was born and raised on the southside instead of Hawaii. I wouldn't be shocked if she lost, also wouldn't be too shocked if she won either. Sister got a shot, in fukking GA, that's saying a whole bunch.

How is the Black Atlanta power base allowing this to happen?

Georgia has 159 counties, 2nd in the country in total number behind only Texas. The state govt is gerrymandered to the point where hick reps from bumble fukk towns have as much power as reps from the cities do. It's a little deeper than just Fulton, Dekalb and Clayton folks having sway over everybody else in the state. That Gold Dome is 140 years of being its own island smack in the middle of downtown, and a good bit of that time has been spent trying to cock block everything Black Atlanta did, in lieu of probably their own interests. Which is on them because its a reason why outside of ATL, most of this state except Blue Ridge, downtown Savannah and St Simons Island is so fukking poor and run down. GA without ATL metro makes Alabama look like Cali. I don't most folks not from here are aware how fukked up and grimey alot of these small towns are. And that's cuz those hicks too worried about what we doing while their own towns are falling apart.

Lol what?

Who you think pays their bills...

Atlanta is ran by White money lol

I feel you, you dont like the city so you try to get your jabs in when you can, but at least know what the fukk you talking bout first tho patna.

 

[Reno89]

Yeah let’s stop voting completely, remove ourselves from the political process and allow the alt right to pack the federal, state and local courts full of Antonio Scalia’s and Clarence Thomas’s

Sounds like an excellent plan...

You extremist idiots sure like to cut your noses off to spite your face. These people are actively trying to stop y’all from voting and your brilliant plan is to willingly remove yourself from the process so they won’t have to.

Wtf do even mean by this?

Agent alert.

See here. Black votes don't matter but yet Rebublicans are trying so hard to keep us out the polls. Redrawing maps no divide our votes. They do it in the small cities/counties and use that as an experiment to work their way upwards and outwards. Our civil rights are being pulled out from under us. This isn't about Democrats or Rebublicans it's about the rights our grandparents and great grandparents faught and died for and this false rhetoric votes meaning nothing. They are scared of Black people exercising their rights.

Randolph County, GA Demographics: 61.4% Black.

That's how voter suppression works for Republicans. They target mainly black areas that have a historical bias against Republicans so that black people don't even have a voice in the political landscape.

You do realize it's a black woman running for governor of GA right? I suggest reading about her before you spout this garbage about her furthering white supremacy.

AGENT POST

One of the candidates is an unashamedly black woman.

@Reno89 you have just outed yourself as an undercover racist white person.




Ban this Trump/republican defending bigot

Yep, you’re an undercover racist white guy

So you won't read what she says but will state with confidence that you know what will happen. You do realize there are things that benefit black people that will also benefit other non-blacks as well. It is also possible to champion positions that greatly benefit black people without explicitly saying "this policy is for black people."

Also her opposition in the race is a white supremacist. He's the GA secretary of state who is in charge of election rules and polling stations.

our people's vote is not gonna have value at all if they're just suppressed.

Negged.

Some more Agents Y'all
Malcom X


Colin Kaepernick. Stephen A sounds like y'all


Tariq Nasheed. Has like 6 documentaries on black history, plus a weekly episodic podcast calling out white supremacy



Dr. Neely Fuller



Dr Claude Anderson - by far my favorite breakdown



You gonna tell me these people are agents also?

 

[King Jove]

Some more Agents Y'all
Malcom X


Colin Kaepernick. Stephen A sounds like y'all


Tariq Nasheed. Has like 6 documentaries on black history, plus a weekly episodic podcast calling out white supremacy



Dr. Neely Fuller



Dr Claude Anderson - by far my favorite breakdown



You gonna tell me these people are agents also?

why are you quoting me?

i never called you an agent.

 

[Asicz]

@Reno89

Ay breh on some real shyt I encourage you to at the very least spend a litle time getting politically aware and educated. That black female governor candiate is nothing like Obama.

Also in terms of voting in general when there were 2 bad choices, remember they were not equally bad. And you should just vote the lesser of two evils.


Particularly with Trump and Hillary both bad but one was worse than the other Trump especially because of his Tax policies, Supreme Court picks etc that negatively affect black people.

 

[feelosofer]

Some more Agents Y'all
Malcom X


Colin Kaepernick. Stephen A sounds like y'all


Tariq Nasheed. Has like 6 documentaries on black history, plus a weekly episodic podcast calling out white supremacy



Dr. Neely Fuller



Dr Claude Anderson - by far my favorite breakdown



You gonna tell me these people are agents also?

I agree with some things and disagree with others things they say. I still stand by what I said about you. If you aren't an agent then you're just willfully ignorant which is worse.

 

[Shorty K]

and this is why the "YoUr vOtE dOeSnT MaTTeR" people will always and forever be the looking like the biggest clowns

but those types are more obedient to the system than they realize anyway. don't let their clumsily methaphysics fool you.

Black folks seem to be thriving under this dude in Georgia, what in your mind will specifically change with the other candidate in office.

 

[Ya' Cousin Cleon]

Black folks seem to be thriving under this dude in Georgia, what in your mind will specifically change with the other candidate in office.

....you don’t see the problem of a state republicans trying to implement dictator style tactics of suppressing black voters?