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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,646 posts)
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 09:43 PM Nov 2020

Trump election challenges sound alarm among voters of color

DETROIT (AP) — When longtime Detroit community advocate Frank McGhee watched two Republican canvassers vote against certifying election results in the majority Black city, he was furious.

McGhee, 58, has spent more than two decades working with Detroit youth and educating them on the electoral process. He said it was “outrageous” to see hard-fought Black voter-mobilization efforts threatened.

"I thought, these are the ultimate executioners, if you will, put in place so that quietly they could take what belongs to us,” he said.

President-elect Joe Biden was in part powered to victory in Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Georgia by Black voters, many of them concentrated in cities such as Detroit, Philadelphia and Atlanta where he received a significant share of their support. Since Election Day, President Donald Trump and his allies have sought to expose voter fraud that simply does not exist in these and other overwhelmingly Black population centers.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-election-challenges-sound-alarm-145511669.html

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Trump election challenges sound alarm among voters of color (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 2020 OP
maybe some detroit voters can move to rural areas n help take back the legislature nt msongs Nov 2020 #1
Thank god for their support. I wish them all the best, such a major xmas gift to us all. SWBTATTReg Nov 2020 #2
I hope this mobilizes them. The efforts of African Americans during the civil rights era shoved us Karadeniz Nov 2020 #3
FO to the Vote Suppressors... TY to Cha Nov 2020 #4
Well said, Cha! SheltieLover Nov 2020 #5
Mahalo, Sheltie! Cha Nov 2020 #6
Yw, Cha! SheltieLover Nov 2020 #7

Karadeniz

(22,445 posts)
3. I hope this mobilizes them. The efforts of African Americans during the civil rights era shoved us
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 09:58 PM
Nov 2020

Into more of a democracy. Trump and the GOP are great motivations to recommit to equal justice. This nation is so lucky to have AA communities that haven't given up on the more perfect union.

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