Anger builds in Black community over Trump's claims of voter fraud in big cities

[Gothmog]

Eidently any votes by a non-white are fraudulent in the minds of trump and the GOP

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When Wisconsin Republicans opened an office earlier this year in the historical Bronzeville neighborhood, it was meant to be a physical symbol of President Trump's commitment to urban voters. Signs on the window declared "Black Voices Matter," and the address was on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive.

But on Friday, as state officials began recounting ballots in Milwaukee County at the request of Trump’s failed reelection campaign, the office had become, for many residents, a symbol of Republican hypocrisy.

“The president kept talking about Black voices mattering when he attempted to make inroads with the African American community,” said Cavalier Johnson, president of the Milwaukee Common Council. “Then he loses the election, and turns right around and targets the same communities that these Black folks came from.”

Johnson, who is Black, reflected deepening outrage over the president’s push for a recount, which some characterized as an attempt to disenfranchise Black voters in a desperate and chaotic bid to stay in power. Though Trump courted Black voters — and improved his showing over 2016 — he and his allies are now trying to deny President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in key battleground states by targeting ballots cast in heavily Black cities such as Philadelphia, Detroit, Atlanta and Milwaukee, arguing that these Democratic strongholds are hotbeds of fraud.

[dchill]

1. To be clear: votes by non-whites and Democrats should be discarded.

[William Seger]

6. ... mainly because Democrats espouse equal citizenship for non-whites

... AKA "identity politics," if your brain has been marinated in right-wing propaganda and you think you can hide your racism behind word games.

[pat_k]

2. Vile. . .

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“It’s as vile now as it was during Reconstruction, when Democrats believed that Republicans were illegitimate and that Black voters had no right to be voting, and they did all of these terrorist activities to block African Americans from voting,” said Carol Anderson, professor of African American studies at Emory University. “It’s a very narrow, slippery slope, from saying ‘illegal votes’ to ‘illegal voters,’ so this attack on Black voters is real.”

[MustLoveBeagles]

3. People aren't stupid

It's obvious what's going on here. I don't blame them for being angry.

[fearnobush]

4. So yes they indeed are attempting to remove illegal voters from the count because they're black

[brush]

5. This isn't even voter suppression on the down-low. This is just in our face...

out in the open, make no mistake about it. They're just saying we want black votes thrown out.

After this I don't see how the few African American republicans stay in that racist party.

[Rice4VP]

7. Georgia, get mad and go vote for the Democrats

[Gothmog]

8. Trump election challenges are aimed at African American voters

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