More important than 2008. Black Americans rush to the polls.

[My Pet Orangutan]

‘My people fought for the right to vote’: With a surge of emotion, Black Americans rush to the polls

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Two weeks before Election Day, Black Americans have voted in striking numbers, helping to drive historic levels of early voting as mail ballots have flooded election offices and people have endured huge lines to cast ballots in person across the country.

In interviews in 10 states where early voting is underway, Black voters said this year’s presidential election is the most important of their lifetime — some calling it more consequential even than 2008, when those who were old enough went to the polls in record numbers to make Barack Obama the country’s first Black president.

They spoke of a sense of urgency to protect the nation’s democracy, and their role in it, which they believe a second Trump term would erode beyond repair. Many said they view the president as a racist who cannot bring himself to disavow white supremacists or the year’s spate of police killings of unarmed Black Americans, and they believe the country is less safe for themselves and their families.

Over and over again, Black Americans described their vote this year as much more than a choice between two presidential candidates, but as an urgent stand in the long fight against racial injustice in America, which the year’s events have made clear is not yet over.

“We shouldn’t be where we’re at in 2020,” said Tasha Grant, 44, a nurse who voted in Charlotte on Thursday and hopes her vote for the Democratic nominee, former vice president Joe Biden, will ensure that her children grow up in a safer, more accepting world.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/black-voters-2020-election/2020/10/18/bdc06ad0-0f3b-11eb-8074-0e943a91bf08_story.hml

The Next Generation
Let Justice Resound

[My Pet Orangutan]

1. Kick.

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2. K&R for that precious little sweetheart!

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3. With her mom's cheeks

and chin.

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4. That starts to put a finger on it.

2008 was an election that seemed miraculous. A big warm fuzzy, a triumph of monumental proportions.

2020 is very different. 2020 is the culmination of 12 years of racial hatred run amok, building and building to epic proportions. I remember in 2016, Trump was going after the Muslims and the Latinx and so many of us said - it doesn't look good for us, it's just a matter of time. And sure enough, the racial hatred that was fomented in 2016 has exploded, painfully and assuredly into a war against people of color, and we, black people, seem to be bearing the brunt of it.

And all we did to deserve this was elect a black president.

In their own way, both are important. But our lives were not at stake in 2008. If Trump wins, it is as if our nation has said that it is okay to persecute people of color. It is okay to harrass them, attack them, kill them. And get away with it.

So yes, this time it really, really matters.

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5. Love it.. so Grateful!