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Midterms Reminded Us How Race Affects Your Voting Experience
From the article:
It’s a week after the midterm elections and we still don’t know the full extent of the blue wave. Here’s what we do know. Even though vote suppression was at its ugliest, Americans navigated the obstacles in record numbers to renounce Donald Trump’s version of nationalism. We were reminded that race continues to affect our voting experience, especially in Republican controlled states.
“The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”
Yet, Republicans have made voting harder every election season. First, they introduced restrictive voter ID laws. The list of acceptable ID appeared arbitrary, but was designed to make getting the accepted ID more difficult for traditional Democratic voters: people of color, students, seniors, and women, especially women of color.
“The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”
Yet, Republicans have made voting harder every election season. First, they introduced restrictive voter ID laws. The list of acceptable ID appeared arbitrary, but was designed to make getting the accepted ID more difficult for traditional Democratic voters: people of color, students, seniors, and women, especially women of color.
To read more:
https://www.politicususa.com/2018/11/14/midterms-reminded-us-how-race-affects-your-voting-experience.html
Trump's birtherism is part of US racism. The idea that no black person can really be a US citizen.
