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In reply to the discussion: Take your BLM posters and set up voter registration tables. It is time to change the narrative [View all]Sunsky
(1,737 posts)Through different administrations. Yet black people are still being murdered by the hands of those who we help pay to protect all of us. This needs to stop. For that reason BLM was formed. Black people want to be able to make it to the election, to be able to vote. George Floyd would've probably voted in November and many others but they aren't alive to be able to vote. I think the intolerance and ignorance towards the cause of BLM will only play in Trump's hands as well, as it will seem as if nobody cares, nobody wants to hear about the struggle.
I'm happy this is not the tone from the Biden campaign. Biden knows that Democrats will need the black vote in November. Dont take Black voters for granted. Trump is already having his surrogates go on Black airwaves saying the Democrats do not care about you. This attitude will only serve to further that message. We ought to be very careful. Trump is a master manipulator. He is playing both sides.
After we send the protesters home (and probably lose some of our voters along the way due to intolerance), Trump will find some other issue to raise. Are you going to play Trump's game and adjust our actions according to his gimmick of the day? Or are we going to be better at framing the narrative and ceasing the storyline? If we can't do the above then we will be running our election according to Trump and not how we want to. This is how Trump/Putin wants it to be done. Instead of turning on each other, we need to be better at messaging.