re: #172 Belafon

Not to mention all the groups on the ground doing GOTV. This stuff doesn’t have to come from on high any more. We are the change we’ve been waiting for was real. It’s not really a message just for marketing a new centralized leadership push, it’s a call to action that empowers individuals and local communities and I think that makes it much stronger.

The more attention the better! The more momentum and engagement the better! And it’s amazing that the kids immediately knew to tie this to the one thing that can make change - voting.

Yara Shahidi’s group, Eighteen X, was already formed to register first time voters. Spread the Vote is an organization that has been doing the very hard work of helping folks get IDs. And we had amazing voter registration initiatives that took great advantage of the Black Panther phenomenon. That was super cool!