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What we see is that black people, especially in the south, dying whether it’s an election year or not from policies that suppress their voting and general daily life.

However, when a large election like this comes up and garners national attention and the attention of national democratic organizations, it becomes the job of BLACK PEOPLE to tip the scales.

Where were these people advocating for their lives every other damn day other than the past two months of their lives? Black people are just a switch to turn off and on for elections.

It’s interesting to notice, because it advantages dems to keep black lives desperate under GOP representation in red states as it compels them to vote democrat.

Voter suppression in these states are a big deal, but why are black southern dems only worth the attention of national democratic organizations when they need them for a major vote tally?

The idea that the only benefit of being a democrat is that if you can win a statewide election where you live, what does that do for voter enthusiasm?

For ppl in these states what is the point of turning out knowing what it costs them? Not just in suppression tactics, but taking time off work, getting a ride etc. Dems just play up the urgency/desperation of their lives to make the incurred cost of going to vote blue worth it.

And that is undeniably tied to their interest of not improving that situation. Because liberating black people in the south means that dems will have to start putting their money where their mouth is!

We shouldn’t be waiting for national dems to be implementing this kind of statewide reform, POC have won many local elections in red states. Give black communities the keys/tools of democratic infrastructure so that we can dictate the terms of mobilization.

Giving black communities in the south the right to dictate their own mobilization allows them to extract concessions from a cynical, inured political apparatus that doesn’t even want to humanize them.

If you’re going to say that the black vote can determine the outcome of a national election, then they should entitled to something worth of that influence!

This victory reinforces this. The DCC should be pouring money in southern communities to elect POC and women into statewide office. Give back the communities that delivered this historic win to you on a silver platter without expecting anything in return!