Great question. Take a look at this article on how it is by design intended to get us black people to stay home.
EDIT: Also, realize that before this step you have gerrymandering the districts to funnel all of the black and minority voters together into a few or one districts. Then you can close down polling places and DMV's near these districts. This is why voter information is so vital to campaigns.
As a white guy, please don't stay home. And try to get your family to go too. If we can get turnout high enough, we can put people in office who are willing to change this disgusting bullshit.
Oh I definitely don't. The annoying thing is the complacency of black people that I've found. I hate the fact that it takes people like Roy Moore to galvanize a lot of us into action. We need to do this for every election without some racist asshole to get us to get out there. For now, we have Trump and his cronies so for at least the next year or so we're gonna be out there.
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u/Dalek_Reaver California Dec 13 '17
Great question. Take a look at this article on how it is by design intended to get us black people to stay home.
EDIT: Also, realize that before this step you have gerrymandering the districts to funnel all of the black and minority voters together into a few or one districts. Then you can close down polling places and DMV's near these districts. This is why voter information is so vital to campaigns.
https://www.snopes.com/2015/10/01/alabama-drivers-license/