re: #351 Bass Reeves

Not in denial, I get what your saying. It’s just missing over and over again that the movement is not monolithic. The single point of reference for the BLM movement is on domestic police accountability. Asking any specific group to respond to the goals of another group is weird to me. It’s like asking a subreddit admin to condemn the policies of twitter. Just because both groups are for net neutrality doesn’t mean one has control over the other. And MBL is a coalition, so…yeah people include stuff you don’t want. The overall goal: domestic police accountability.

By this, you seem to be saying ‘make enough white people uncomfortable with the amount of effort they have to put in to help black people’ and you’ll blow an election. Is that what you’re tiptoeing around? Black people have been voting so much that conservatives had to gut the VRA to slow it down. I mean, if we were talking midterms, I’m right there for you, but there is no lack of black voter enthusiasm this year.

No tiptoeing to be done. I want Trump’s racist base to be disheartened enough to stay home. And I want the convince-able middle to be able to set aside any residual bias and bother to vote for HRC. We risk overstating the importance of just BLM as an
issue, but this will likely be an election that hangs on 2-3 percent.

Alabama blacks overvoted for Obama by 1 percent. Here’s hoping they don’t fall back to pre-2008 levels. Our Voter ID law has passed USSC muster, and Florida’s, while having legal challenges, is even more restrictive.