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miradori:yeinesomemdarre:oswinstark:black-geek-supremacy:oswinstark:black-geek-supremacy:oswinstark:black-geek-supremacy:oswinstark:black-geek-supremacy:oswinstark:[2016 Presidential Election Turnout Rate:46.9% Didn’t Vote25.6% Voted for Clinton25.5% Voted for Trump1.7% Voted for Johnson]Hey guysYou see this shit right here?“Oh I just wasn’t excited about Hillary”“I just didn’t feel the candidates”“My vote doesn’t matter anyway”More than the people that voted for Stein or Johnson. More than the people who voted for Trump.You know what swayed the election? The people who just decided not to vote.So I want you to, right now, start saying this to yourself:The person who wins the Democratic Primary will not align 100% with my viewsThey will believe things I’m not completely okay withThey won’t support everything I want them to supportThey won’t be without flawsThey won’t be without past mistakesAnd despite all of thisI will vote for them anywayThere are too many people whose vote are being actively blocked for you to just decide not to voteThere are too many people whose lives depend on you voting out Republicans for you not to voteThere are too many people who won’t even make it to 2020 because of what’s currently happening for you to decide voting just doesn’t matterAnd I don’t want you to just repeat this mantra for 2020I want you to make 2018 the biggest midterm election ever recorded.I want you to make the Republicans shit their pants when they see the lines and lines of people voting on Tuesday November 6th, 2018I want you to start right now making sure that everyone around you has everything in order to be able to vote in 2018 because the Republicans are actively working to make sure that people can’t voteThat’s how they work. They only win when the vote is suppressed. And they know that.Fuck. Them. Up.I actually dont have a problem with people not voting as long as they’re doing some kind of direct action that’ll get shit done but they’re not even interested in doing that either That doesn’t make any sense. Voting IS direct action that’ll get shit done!IF YOU ARE ABLE YOU NEED TO VOTENo its not at least not by itself cuz change has never come from inside the government ever.No but to enact real change you need to vote for the people who will best represent you in government.Protesting is great. Organized campaigns for calling/letter writing or any kind of action is great. Any kind of political action is great.But it means nothing without using your power of vote.Is that why we got stuck with Drumpf along with people like Reagan, Nixon, and Bush 1 & 2? Cuz voting brings real change right?Did….did you miss the whole point of the original post?No but I think you missed mine tho.Attitudes like yours are the reason people sit out of elections and we get stuck with assholes like Reagan, Nixon, and Bush 1&2No they’re not Chelsea, can you try to have some damn nuance when responding to Black people in the US who have a better and more complex understanding about voting rights and discrimination, and how it affects their demographic specifically? Or is that too complicated? Do you really think it’s Black voters’ faults for not voting hard enough? Unless you think everyone you speak to is in the same boat? You’re misrepresenting their cynicism and putting it on par with white apathy to the status quo because that’s the baseline agenda of your post, to speak to those who have easy access to voting but choose not to out of privilege. Not to those who know what daily sacrifice means. Black people have gritted our teeth and voted for unsavory and often actually racist candidates for decades. Every time. It’s nearly exclusively white people you’re gonna have to battle over voting, not us. We overwhelmingly voted against trump, bush, romney and mccain. We know cos they never shut up about calling us brainwashed for democrats. And yet… We know what it means to fight back for our right to vote but we also know a formality for formality’s sake when we see it. It’s a long and hard daily fight for our right just to participate in “free and fair” elections and it’s a losing battle no matter how hard or fast you drudge up the hill. Basically, until white people as a whole wake up and undue their own deeply seeded status as oppressor, our votes literally can only go so far. Damage control, at best. That’s realism, not defeatism. tl;dr: just know that when it comes to the argument about not voting when one has access to it largely only applies to white people. it’s not a universal virtue you can place on minorities who are by definition already likely disillusioned by the system itself. and don’t you ever dare put the outcome of an election on Black American shoulders, even individually. it ain’t a single Black persons attitude or cynicism that got us where we are today, what a completely ridiculous statement. It’s white oppression that overwhelmingly makes elections happen, honey. Keep your ish directed at the WHITE MASSES who can’t be bothered to care unless if affects them personally. That’s where the change has to come. Maybe they can pick a candidate that isn’t actual swamp garbage. Who knows.She wasn’t doing that. She was responding to someone and engaging in a conversation of how voting is important. No where in there did she say it was any minority’s fault or was putting it on their shoulders. She was pointing out that a key point of a functional republic is not getting done for various reasons. Which needs to change. Apathy is a huge problem in getting out the vote.As a woman I will always vote because people literally fought, were tortured, bled and died for me to have that right. Any minority in this country that isn’t a white man bled and died past the American Revolution to have the right to vote. That can’t be thrown away.If even a quarter of the people who sat out had voted for Not Trump, we’d have a different President. And I think it’s safe to say at least of the many people didn’t vote due to apathy.As a bi-woman, without the voting that has been happening, I wouldn’t have the right to marry whomever I wanted. Voter Suppression is a real problem that we need to fight against. Chelsea was referring to the apathetic. The people who are fully capable of voting but don’t.I am working to empathize and I acknowledge I will never have a black person’s perspective, but jumping down someone’s throat for arguing her point isn’t helping. It’s dividing the blue side to the point where we will never be able to fight back.yawn okay stop acting like she’s being bullied by black people it’s embarrassing. at this point this is why I feel like saying fuck that the “blue” of the “republic” better start respecting black people when they decide to speak their minds instead of trying to accuse them of being the cause of WHITE VOTER APATHY if they want this shit to even survive until 2020. which tbh my bets are on societal collapse sadly. I know you, a white bi woman are not trying to explain to me, a black bi woman, the gravity of a right to vote means, right? and how voter suppression works? mm okay. maybe try reading into the meaning of what I said instead of jumping to defensive mode and see if that helps. anyway. just know there’s a way to address white apathy and black cynicism as white people: the former needs to be challenged relentlessly and the latter needs to be given nuance and respect. which isn’t happening at any point here on this post. like I said, even the stuff that’s supposed to jostle white people to action here is… eh. I guess bolding stuff does the trick or something. -- source link

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