Modern day voter suppression.

The mid-term elections are are almost here, and I am not going to tell you who to vote for, but it is important that you vote. If you are a person of color and you fail to vote, you are letting down a lot of people who paid the ultimate sacrifice to give you that right.

It's an important right that should not be taken for granted. You are living in a time in history when a lot of powerful and well connected people are trying to take that right away from you. It's called voter suppression, and it is rampant in modern day America.

Of course this it nothing new. It used to be called poll taxes and literacy tests in the Jim Crow era America, and it was much more open and obvious back then.

Now, voter suppression can take many forms. It can be as crude as thugs trying to intimidate you at the voting booth, or as sophisticated as an elected politician trying to find fancy legal loopholes to prevent your vote from counting. In the state of Georgia one of the candidates running for Governor, also happens to be the Secretary of State, and he has been purging minority voters from the voting rolls. (Take about big ones. This guy has them.) His opponent is an African American female, so you know he is not even pretending to follow the law anymore. I suspect that there would no fate worse than losing to this uppity Yale educated Negro. 

Of course, down in Florida, another uppity Negro is also running for Governor of that state, and his republican opponent has just decided to appeal to the racism of his base. They have have thrown away the whistles and called this Negro every name in the book, from "thief" to "monkey", and I think he is still leading in the polls. That has got to be driving trump and his racist buddies crazy.

Speaking of trump, you will notice that I didn't even lead with the news that Michael Cohen has finally revealed that the man he worked closely with for many years is a flat out racist. He gave many examples, and there is not a person in America with a half of a brain who doesn't believe that it's all true.

Still, it's not news, because we all knew that he was a racist all along. So much so, that this just seems like a another dog bites man story. Can you imagine this type of news breaking about another president? It would be earth shattering stuff. Sadly, though, with this guy, it's just par for the course.

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