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

[Shorty K]

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

Bro, I asked you a simple ass question. What do you think changes in the state of Georgia for black folks with the other candidate in office as opposed to the current one? What will the other candidate be doing that's gonna demonstratably help black folks more than the current one? And I'm only gonna read your post if you're gonna give me a clear and concise answer to my clear and concise question, fyi.

 

[saturn7]

My cousin is looking to register

Is this a safe site for him to use

I was able to verify my voter reg on the site. It seems legit.

"The site, run by non-profit advocacy group Long Distance Voter, simplifies the process of figuring out where you can register to vote. You can also request absentee ballots from your state through the site. Vote.org will show you your state’s rules for absentee voting as well. Even if you’re not willing to hand over your personal information to a third party, the site has plenty of helpful information including voting calendars and voting deadlines."

https://lifehacker.com/vote-org-helps-you-register-to-vote-and-fill-out-absent-1775490676

https://www.forbes.com/sites/moirav...inator-seed-funding-in-178-days/#21df12c01ba0

 

[MaxPain]

Trump is in office because of white people, specifically white women. This aint on our people.

Leave it to these fakkits the only reason Donald Trump is in office is bc more black people didnt vote for Hilary. Its all black people’s faults.

 

[At30wecashout]

Yeah but look at this video from Malcolm X though

Exactly perfect execution. Babble is all it is. Votes do matter or folks would not be trying to take it from us. You know, unless one of the Coli geniuses surmise that its reverse psychology to get you to vote while you can.

 

[At30wecashout]

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.

Add to all that closing polling places, limiting early voting, fukking with the hours of existing polling places. It ain't a secret, and it's no coincidence. It's one thing to not give a fukk about a presidential election, but all the important ones are below that, and people are being blocked from voting for good reason.

Every vote matters. Just because you don't win, that doesn't change that. However when you give up, you really lost, especially locally.

 

[dj-method-x]

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

Black folks are thriving because of immense black economic power, black ownership, black higher education, and a local black liberal government IN SPITE of historically ass backwards state politics. The rest of Georgia on the other hand....

Source: I live in ATL

 

[Shorty K]

Black folks are thriving because of immense black economic power, black ownership, black higher education, and a local black liberal government IN SPITE of historically ass backwards state politics. The rest of Georgia on the other hand....

Source: I live in ATL

Right. So with the other candidate in office, what do you think changes for black folks in Georgia? Can you point to anything specific that the other candidate will do that will elevate black folks at a higher level than they are elevating under the current regime?

 

[dj-method-x]

Right. So with the other candidate in office, what do you think changes for black folks in Georgia.

Honestly not much because the state legislature will still be controlled by republikkkans. However, having a black woman in there to veto their bullshyt will be paramount since state legislators do a lot of things to fukk liberal urban cities like Atlanta (look to St. Louis and kc politics vs Missouri as a good example of this). She also will be able to yield her executive powers to do things like appoint judges, etc.

 

[Shorty K]

Honestly not much because the state legislature will still be controlled by republikkkans. However, having a black woman in there to veto their bullshyt will be paramount. She also will be able to yield her executive powers to do things like appoint judges, etc.

So are you really saying having a black woman in office won't demonstratably benefit black folks more than having an old racist cac running their state?

 

[dj-method-x]

So are you really saying having a black woman in office won't demonstratably benefit black folks more than having an old racist cac running their state?

Did you read my post?

 

[Rekkapryde]

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.
  
  
• The First in the World (FITW) program provided unique opportunities for HBCUs to compete for grants focused on innovation to drive student success.
  
  
• In 2014, Hampton University received a grant award of $3.5 million.
  
  
• In FY 2015, three FITW awards were made to HBCUs, including Jackson State University ($2.9 million), Delaware State University ($2.6 million) and Spelman College ($2.7 million).
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• The President has ordered the Justice Department to ban the use of solitary confinement for juveniles held in federal custody. There are presently no more juveniles being held in restrictive housing federally.

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.
  
  
• Nearly 250 communities in all 50 states, 19 Tribal Nations, Washington, DC and Puerto Rico have accepted the President’s My Brother’s Keeper Community Challenge to dedicate resources and execute their own strategic plans to ensure all young people can reach their full potential.
  
  
• Inspired by the President’s call to action, philanthropic and other private organizations have committed to provide more than $600 million in grants and in-kind resources and $1 billion in low-interest financing to expand opportunity for young people – more than tripling the initial private sector investment since 2014.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• In fiscal year 2015, underserved markets received 32,563 loans totaling $13 billion, compared with 25,799 loans and $10.47 billion in fiscal year 2014, an increase of 26 percent in number of loans and 24 percent in dollar amount.
  
  
• Last year, the SBA issued a new rule that makes most individuals currently on probation or parole eligible for a SBA microloan—a loan of up to $50,000 that helps small businesses start up. And in August 2016, SBA together with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and Justine Petersen, launched the Aspire Entrepreneurship Initiative, a $2.1 Million pilot initiative to provide entrepreneurship education and microloans to returning citizens in Detroit, Chicago, Louisville and St. Louis.

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.
  
  
• Five states now have their first African-American circuit judge; 10 states now have their first African-American female lifetime-appointed federal judge; and 3 districts now have their first African-American district judge.
  
  
• 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.

Bookmarking this. Tired of this hotep narrative that Barack didn't do shyt for us.

Repped.

 

[feelosofer]

Bookmarking this. Tired of this hotep narrative that Barack didn't do shyt for us.

Repped.

A lot of 'hoteps' on this site are white agitators and the ones that aren't cling to that false narrative because it feeds into the narrative of black inferiority and the lack of power we have either as an individual or a collective.

 

[Shorty K]

Did you read my post?

Yeah. Your post said not much and I was just making sure I was understanding that you meant what you said.

 

[dj-method-x]

Yeah. Your post said not much and I was just making sure I was understanding that you meant what you said.

Read it again. No one is expecting her to be a black savior mostly due to having to deal with a republican state legislator, but it’s absolutely more beneficial for us for her to be there than the alternative because of veto power, executive powers, judicial appointments, control over state run justice departments, etc.

Damn shame why I have to explain why having a black woman from Decatur as governor of Georgia will be good for black ppl.

 

[Shorty K]

Read it again. No one is expecting her to be a black savior mostly due to having to deal with a republican state legislator, but it’s absolutely more beneficial for us for her to be there than the alternative because of veto power, executive powers, judicial appointments, control over state run justice departments, etc.

Damn shame why I have to explain why having a black woman from Decatur as governor of Georgia will be good for black ppl.

You don't have to 'splain anything bro lol. You said that having a black woman in office won't make much (if any) difference to the black people in Georgia than having a damn racist cac supremacist in office. That's all that needs to be said. Keep voting nikka. Lol