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A whole new BFD realization that should motivate our GOTV for 2022:Georgia's vote proved that...
Returning to the South, establishing Black power in states where you're already a large percentage of the population, changes the political dynamic of America completely.
If the Great Migration had not happened, Black people could control up to 14 Senate seats today.
If it never happened, Black people could control or be the controlling interest of more EC votes than CA and NY combined.
Over all those years, we would not have had a Republican president for the last 50 years!
The entire Supreme Court would look different!
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)Hes just so on top of issues. He brings the truth with a hammer. Love his take on the importance of the elections in Georgia.
Sometimes uncomfortable to hear, but the truth can be that way.
ancianita
(35,813 posts)Hard truth is good trouble, imo. Acting on it is the hard part.
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)They can teach us so much.
Keep bringing that good trouble, Mr. Blow!
ampm
(299 posts)Yes, thanks for bringing out this truth, we needed this and so the conversation is bringing out the hidden agendas of the right and that why we're seeing the blowback.
ampm
(299 posts)Watch him as much as I can and yes the truth isn't pretty but that's the conversation we must have.
Fascinating.
Thank you for posting this.
dhill926
(16,234 posts)ancianita
(35,813 posts)I'm glad that the Great Migration gave some economic relief to Black people, and even helped build a Black middle class. But I'm also angry about the systematic terrorism of slave states that forced them to leave.
Their political violence has never stopped, and as Michelle Alexander documented in The New Jim Crow, has even resulted in laws that disallowed racial profiling data in courts.
Maybe Jaime Harrison and Stacey Abrams will flip a couple more states by 2022.
Domestic terrorism's gotten so bad that we'll need to weed out death cult militias. And we're going to have to keep campaign fighting in the next three election cycles as if Trump were running.
SunSeeker
(51,377 posts)Charles Blow makes a stunning point.