“I gave a little blood on that bridge in Selma. I almost died. Some of my friends and colleagues were murdered. I'm not asking any of you to give any blood. I'm just asking you to go and vote like you've never voted before."
--Rep. John Lewis
@senatemajldr Honor @RepJohnLewis with more than words, and finally hold a vote this week on the Voting Rights Advancement Act to restore the key voting protections that John Lewis fought and bled for in the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
#johnlewis#HonorJohnLewis
@pattonoswalt Watching Band of Brothers Ep 9. Everyday Germans forced to confront concentration camps. We know there are children separated from their parents, all in cages in this country RIGHT NOW. How are we not complicit if we are not screaming & protesting & calling & donating & voting.
The speech Thurgood Marshall gave twenty-eight years ago still resonates to this day: “Democracy just cannot flourish amid fear. Liberty cannot bloom amid hate. Justice cannot take root amid rage. America must get to work.”
House has passed legislation to:
-give DC full voting rights
-restore Voting Rights Act
-adopt automatic registration & early voting
-expand mail voting & give $3.6 billion election aid to states
-stop foreign election interference
McConnell blocking votes on all of them
Trump prides himself on being #1, and he is.
- Single largest market drop in history.
- Most lies ever told by a president.
- Highest national deficit ever.
- Most COVID-19 infections in the world.
All in his first term.
I’ve been getting a lot of questions from my non-Black friends about how to be a better ally to Black people. I suggest unlearning and relearning through literature as just one good jumping off point, and have broken up my anti-racist reading list into sections: