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Tamika's "Thought of the Day" Where Are Our Voting Rights?

Oct 15, 20218 min
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 In this clip Tamika ask a very important question to democrats, which is how do they attend to win the mid elections without voting rights?? Tamika and Mysonne impact this question with giving examples on how the people voting rights are being suppressed, not having accurate information on different administrations and more.

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How does how does the Democratic Party intend to win mid term elections without voting rights? Confused? I don't think. I don't think the Democratic Party attends to win anything. No, they they intend will It's something different. You can't. You can't, they can't be it's good. There's no way that they expect those good old people that they would have voted that they didn't private stings that ain't got nothing else,

people that saved them. There's no way they expect those good old people to like you ask CBD, Candy, what do you want? They know, them good old people. They're going back out there to vote again after this now they ain't no come on now, they're gonna have to pull another rabbit out the hat for this one because you because but I'm saying that voting right specific let's just say I get your point, right, I get your point.

From our perspective, it's almost impossible to believe it's actually disrespectful to even to even to even not just assume, but to request the strand of people that they vote right, that they vote for UM anyone who has not fulfilled any of the promises that were made right so that I agree with, I agree with you on that. But

I'm speaking of something different. I'm saying that because what happens is even when you say I'm not engaging myself in this election, I don't believe, I don't trust right. We have that position, and that's okay. But the thing is, then you have to start listening to the people who are running against these folks. And when you start listening to them and understanding their agenda, it may encourage a lot of people to say, you know what, I'm going to the post, right, I'm going to the post. Now.

I'm not saying everyone, and I'm certainly not talking about ray Raids and Keisha's and others. But I'm saying there are there is a there, there is a there are a group of people people want to kill me. Man. I know, I give through it. I agree with you need to. I'm on the attack about it all the time, and I still would make the same decision if I had to do it all over again. But I'm not

even I'm speaking of something even different. I'm saying there are some folks in our society that when approached and they are listening just because you're watching the news, or you're at church or you're reading the paper, you're in your community when you hear the other side of what you may be looking at, and you're listening to someone who absolutely wants to take away your right to having abortion,

so you're right to choose. And or they want to open more prisons, or you know they want to um, I don't know, you know they want to they want to close more schools, or you know, take more funding from communities in order to invest more in punitive measures and support police and uh, you know they bleed the blue.

When you hear that rhetoric and that nue right, it may encourage you to say, I don't think that these other folks is worth the damn either, But I know I have to block this individual from becoming whatever and senator or whatever they're voting for in their community. What I'm speaking of is, now you're on your way to go vote, and you find out that your vote is actually being suppressed by way of the laws in that

particular state. Just just forget I'm saying everything they could have done it all right, And this is that I'm somebou voting rights to people that want to vote the civil believe, and so you know what I'm going to vote, and they get there and realize they can the name has been purged. They need this, you know, their idea

has to be updated there. You know they've been voting knowing that you got elderly people who have been voting for years with one little letter misspelled on their identification versus their voting record. Because when we were coming out of enslavement and I we never had the appropriate records. A lot of people have continued through life with things that's not one accurate, but it's it's Mama May's leaves information,

you know what I'm saying. And so to to have this, this this situation where it seems like people are fumbling and now we're at the administration and others are fumbling on fighting as hard as hell to get voting rights accomplished. I'm trying to figure you're out when you're already failing at all and getting the policy in place, and then you're not even giving people who might just still want to be with you the ability to go to the polls like you. They can't be playing anything. They don't

plan on winn I trying to do. They don't have any plan on They're just at this point, like it's just going through the motions, and it's disappointing because you know, you want, as somebody who wants things to be good, you want things to be right, you know, you actually pray on it and all that. You want to believe that there is some side or some individuals that are in power to some certain degree that actually want to do right. You know, they want to do that, are

willing to do whatever necessary to do right. So I'm not saying I don't I don't believe they don't want to do I think they're not what they haven't come to the stage in the mind frame of that they have to do was ever necessary to do right? Not doing right. It's just not an option. I'm not gonna allow you to delay justice and delay things that are right. I have to do whatever it is within my power to make things right, you know. And that's even though

we hope for that, that's not where we are. So, you know, if people can't even go to the polls, and then the people that ain't never going to the polls, and the people when obviously got so I got people going to the polls, and they reinventorated going to the polls.

You know, they're going to the polls for their own agenda, and their agenda is either they're gonna get some things that they want done that open communities or just stop that community from being able to progress in any way they can't get gain anymore ground into um you know, sort of breaking down systems of oppression. And so they vote for different reasons. They vote because you might be somebody who maybe you're not as radically conservative um as I want you to be, but I at least know

that you're not going to support a progressive Virginia. Yes, right, we have people that are on both sides that think similarly. But I think the the issue with us as black people at this point is that we are no longer in a position to just like we've already stopped something. You can't just keep kicking, you know. We just not the shocking and dry ki ki and go alone and get along that. So, you know, we're just in a different space

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