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ancianita

(35,813 posts)
Wed Jan 27, 2021, 10:15 AM Jan 2021

Lawrence O'Donnell & Charles Blow On The Proof of Concept of Georgia -- Holy Crap!

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!




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Lawrence O'Donnell & Charles Blow On The Proof of Concept of Georgia -- Holy Crap! (Original Post) ancianita Jan 2021 OP
Charles Blow must surely be the smartest man in the world. Cracklin Charlie Jan 2021 #1
Agree. And he's a hard working writer with a consistently excellent column. ancianita Jan 2021 #2
Good actors in Georgia. Cracklin Charlie Jan 2021 #3
Mr blow ampm Jan 2021 #6
Yes to truth ampm Jan 2021 #5
Wow! cp Jan 2021 #4
this was really an eye opening interview... dhill926 Jan 2021 #7
It adds a deeper, insidious motive to red state racist politics, too. ancianita Jan 2021 #8
I've heard of the Great Migration, but I never thought of the repercussions to the South. SunSeeker Jan 2021 #9

Cracklin Charlie

(12,904 posts)
1. Charles Blow must surely be the smartest man in the world.
Wed Jan 27, 2021, 10:42 AM
Jan 2021

He’s 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)
2. Agree. And he's a hard working writer with a consistently excellent column.
Wed Jan 27, 2021, 10:52 AM
Jan 2021

Hard truth is good trouble, imo. Acting on it is the hard part.

ampm

(299 posts)
6. Mr blow
Wed Jan 27, 2021, 04:17 PM
Jan 2021

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)
5. Yes to truth
Wed Jan 27, 2021, 04:14 PM
Jan 2021

Watch him as much as I can and yes the truth isn't pretty but that's the conversation we must have.

ancianita

(35,813 posts)
8. It adds a deeper, insidious motive to red state racist politics, too.
Wed Jan 27, 2021, 05:06 PM
Jan 2021

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)
9. I've heard of the Great Migration, but I never thought of the repercussions to the South.
Wed Jan 27, 2021, 05:27 PM
Jan 2021

Charles Blow makes a stunning point.

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