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The Midterms Are Our Chance To Vote Out White Supremacy
Huffington Post ^ | 10/29/18 | Patrisse Cullors

Posted on 10/29/2018 2:50:18 PM PDT by Libloather

The results of the 2016 election felt like a punch to the gut. I remember feeling stunned, confused, and unprepared for what lay ahead. I learned in that moment, and in many moments since, that elections have consequences.

We enter the Nov. 6 midterm election ruled by a Republican majority carrying out a concerted voter suppression campaign and with a leader blatantly cultivating an environment of racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia and oppression. This must end.

**SNIP**

Since 2013, the #BlackLivesMatter movement and the Black Lives Matter Global Network and our allies have fought against attacks on black bodies and our communities. We have fought against police, vigilante, and state-sanctioned violence. We have brought focus to issues that disproportionately impact black people including the degradation of the environment, mass incarceration, the broken money-bail system, low wages and poverty. We uplift the working class. We celebrate queer, trans, femme and gender binary folks, and fight for immigrant rights. We center black joy.

(Excerpt) Read more at m.huffpost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2018midterms; elections; supremacy; vote; white
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Patrisse Cullors is a co-founder of #BlackLivesMatter and the author of When They Call You A Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir.

Didn't she vote for a white woman?

1 posted on 10/29/2018 2:50:18 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

I was not aware that anyone had “Voted-In” White Supremacy.


2 posted on 10/29/2018 2:51:33 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Libloather

You should just leave this raysis country, Patty. Try Somalia, they’ll love you there.


3 posted on 10/29/2018 2:51:59 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: Libloather

Tell it, Sister.

But change “Supremacy” to “interest.”


4 posted on 10/29/2018 2:53:08 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine ("It's always a party when you're eating the seed corn.")
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To: Pearls Before Swine

OOps, I misread the headline. I thought she was being sarcastic, not serious.


5 posted on 10/29/2018 2:53:42 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine ("It's always a party when you're eating the seed corn.")
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To: Libloather

“White Supremacy” is the only thing standing between our Republic and a Marxist takeover. Long live White Patriots!


6 posted on 10/29/2018 2:53:58 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: Libloather
The results of the 2016 election felt like a punch to the gut.

             

7 posted on 10/29/2018 2:56:45 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: Libloather
an environment of racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia and oppression.

They left out Iron Poor Tired Blood and the Heartbreak of Psoriasis...

8 posted on 10/29/2018 2:57:48 PM PDT by Feckless (The US Gubbmint / This Tagline CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
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To: Army Air Corps
I was not aware that anyone had “Voted-In” White Supremacy.

Maybe those people who kept sending "Sheets" Byrd back to the US Senate over and over.


9 posted on 10/29/2018 2:58:25 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: vette6387

There is no such thing as ‘White Supremacy’!


10 posted on 10/29/2018 2:59:14 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration
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To: Libloather

“We celebrate queer, trans, femme and gender binary folks, and fight for immigrant rights”

yeah, i somehow doubt that the regular black working-class fellow “celebrates queer, trans, femme and gender binary folks, and fights for immigrant rights” ...


11 posted on 10/29/2018 2:59:31 PM PDT by catnipman ((Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!))
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Ah.


12 posted on 10/29/2018 2:59:44 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Feckless
We center black joy.

Uhhhh.

What?

13 posted on 10/29/2018 3:00:27 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: Libloather
The Midterms Are Our Chance To Vote Out White Supremacy

PuffHo's not Democrat-leaning any more? Now that's newsworthy!

14 posted on 10/29/2018 3:01:37 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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See you at the polls.

I doubt that, but you'll certainly hear me.

15 posted on 10/29/2018 3:01:58 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Libloather

Yeah!!

Let’s vote dem ‘Mericans outta der own country!!

Viva La Raza!

Power to da Peeples Right Arm!

Keep singin’ it morons, the ordinary people are leavin’ ya in droves

Big Daddy Don gonna blow y’all away


16 posted on 10/29/2018 3:02:11 PM PDT by Regulator
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They keep beating that dead horse. Meanwhile, minorities are learning Trump is not the boogie-man they’ve been warned against, and that conservatives welcome them with open arms and major economic opportunities.


17 posted on 10/29/2018 3:03:45 PM PDT by keats5
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To: Libloather
p38
18 posted on 10/29/2018 3:04:03 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Libloather

This person needs serious mental help.


19 posted on 10/29/2018 3:04:09 PM PDT by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: fortheDeclaration

“There is no such thing as ‘White Supremacy’!”

I know that, it’s a metaphor! Just taking note or what group was actually behind the formation of this country.


20 posted on 10/29/2018 3:06:59 PM PDT by vette6387
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