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freshwest

(53,661 posts)
Sat Sep 13, 2014, 07:48 PM Sep 2014

"...November is coming up, and you are out!"

Young black man warns Ferguson’s white establishment: ‘We’ve got the power — you don’t’



By Scott Kaufman - September 10, 2014

“...It is time for us to get suited and booted and kick their you-know-whats out of office,” he said. “We’ve got the power — they don’t. We’re trying to figure out how this man, that man, the old man — the Man, the Man, the Man up there on his iPad who don’t care what we have to say. How do we get him out? We vote him out! We recall him out!”

The young man added that the white community has “been thinking for too long, that black people don’t love each other — that me and this brother,” he said, pointing to a fellow attendee, “can’t go out there and peacefully protest for our rights. But guess what? It happened, and it’s not going to stop. If we don’t get justice, young people are going to continue to stand up.”

“We’re not fighting each other anymore, that stuff is dead,” he said. “We’re fighting them, because they’ve been fighting us. And we won’t take it. We’re fired up! We’re fed up! We’re young! We’re strong!”

“So mayor,” he concluded, “you better enjoy that seat, because November is coming up, and you are out!”


VIDEO:



Many more of his words at the link:

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/09/10/young-black-man-warns-fergusons-white-establishment-weve-got-the-power-you-dont/

Federal investigators went door to door to get witness statements and also handed out voter registration forms. The supporters of American democracy are those who actually built it. We need these voices heard nationwide.

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sheshe2

(83,336 posts)
1. I have to go back and watch the video, freshwest.
Sat Sep 13, 2014, 08:16 PM
Sep 2014
“But do you know what? We ought to thank them,” he said, “because it’s time for us to kick them out. They don’t care about us, that’s been proven. And they won’t care until we show them that we have the power to vote them out.”


It didn't start here, however I hope it ends here. It's time all of us stand up and say no! We vote them out and recall them out, not just in Ferguson. I love this young man, he is the future and a strong voice for People of Color everywhere.

Great OP, freshwest.
 

Triana

(22,666 posts)
5. If every one of us non-millionaires and non-billionaires were as fired up as this guy...
Sat Sep 13, 2014, 10:01 PM
Sep 2014

...all those assholes - all the way up to DC - might could be out in November.

But alas, we're infested with apathetic, stupid people. And if that's not bad enough, we've got gerrymandered districts, suppressed votes, and "our" gov't up for auction to rich people and corprats like street corner whores to johns.

It's a slutocracy.

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
6. And being more mad at each other than the ones on the ALEC payroll who are busy stealing our rights.
Sat Sep 13, 2014, 10:55 PM
Sep 2014
We're buying the words of a media who lies to us about each other and won't give us the facts.

From RFK, Jr. in 2008:






We've forgotten this:

If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

~Malcolm X


Regarding suppressing voting, it's nothing new:



It is a continuing battle. But demographics will eventually win the day. And the strength, love and youth like the one in the video who want that peaceful revolution at the ballot. It will work for those who vote, as it worked for the Tea Party.


Cha

(295,904 posts)
7. I love this young man, fresh.. "..We vote him out! We recall him out!” Bottom
Sat Sep 13, 2014, 11:16 PM
Sep 2014
Line!

From your link..

“But do you know what? We ought to thank them,” he said, “because it’s time for us to kick them out. They don’t care about us, that’s been proven. And they won’t care until we show them that we have the power to vote them out.”


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