Posted on 07/21/2016 12:53:00 PM PDT by simpson96
Hawk Newsome cares deeply about America's presidential election.
He and other activists in the Black Lives Matter movement have this week driven all the way from New York to Cleveland to demonstrate outside the Republican National Convention, couch-surfing with friends along the way. Next week, they'll be doing the same in Philadelphia at the Democratic National Convention.
But one thing that Newsome and his friends say they won't be doing in November is voting. For anyone.
"Neither party has stepped to the front and made Black Lives Matter a priority," he says. "Hillary Clinton has the votes of millions of African Americans in her hands. But she's promoting herself. And the problem is that we are settling [for that]!"
Newsome is leading a new campaign to get African Americans to do something that few civil rights leaders have recommended: stop voting. He believes that only by withdrawing support from the major parties can black communities force politicians to address their concerns about police brutality.
He calls it "I Ain’t Voting" — and he says he’s aware that it could be seen as a rejection of the struggle that a previous generation went through.
“Before, we fought to have our right to vote,” he says. “But now we need to fight to have our right to vote mean something.”
And he believes that the nomination of Donald Trump may in fact be an opportunity for African Americans in this election cycle. Newsome believes Donald Trump has revived white supremacy as an ideology in US politics — but that his candidacy is will also force Hillary to fight for every vote she can get in November.
“Black Americans have a chance right now collectively to say to the Democrats: ‘Hey, if you don’t give us criminal justice reform, we’ll give the country to Donald Trump.'
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Um, okay. I’m totally cool with that.
Lots of states don’t let felons vote so this is hardly surprising.
Stay home, find a ‘safe space’ and shelter in place. Thank you for your (inadvertent) service to our Country...
Go Trump, GO!
CLEVER!!
GOOD!!!! Don’t vote! That’s several fewer votes for Hillary!!!!
Make a big ruckus in Philadelphia, too!!!!
Phooey, anyway!!!!
Smarter than a lot of D voters. Most don’t realize that Ds don’t care about them except during elections. Hillary will put on the accent and pretend to care about blacks and kiss their butts until November 8. Then she’ll treat them the same as any other peon for 3-1/2 years.
That won’t change until D candidates can no longer rely on black votes without actually helping black voters. The same goes for both parties and lots of voter groups.
Sounds like a good plan.
In addition, many states refuse to provide picture ballots.
Oh, no, Brer Fox, don’t throw me in that briar patch.
That won’t change until D candidates can no longer rely on black votes without actually helping black voters. The same goes for both parties and lots of voter groups.”
What if we had a government that was honest and just?
Silly, I know. Sorry.
Democrats are gonna continue to take you totally for granted until you make them pay the price, guy.
Their Democrat votes will be tallied even if they stay home. If the dead can vote Dem, and they do, why can’t the absent?
Black racist voters won’t vote for a white woman.
Their vote for Obama was all about skin color.
Hillary doesn’t elicit the same passion.
Gee, that’s a real bummer—NOT.
I understand that they will also refuse to shower in November.
Good. America-hating marxist lazy slobs should not vote.
Meaning black lives don’t really matter...after Obama.
Hey, it’s a free country!
Or at least it used to be.
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