Tell Amazon & Apple: Reject Racism and Say No to North Carolina’s Racist Attacks on Voting Rights
Until recently, my home state of North Carolina had a reputation as a forward-thinking, “beacon” of the South - a mantle we held for decades.
But for the last five years, politicians in the North Carolina General Assembly (NCGA) have been working to block eligible Black people from voting. Sound familiar? It should. In 2016, North Carolina made national news when a federal court struck down our racist voter ID law because it targeted Black people with “almost surgical precision.”
Now, those same state legislators are back with a new racist voter ID state constitutional amendment that’s effectively identical to that unconstitutional, bigoted law.
They think they can get away with it this time because the public is distracted, tired, and bored of talking about Black people being denied their franchise.
I say, like hell we are. As a Black North Carolinian and high school graduate from the Wake County Public School system, it has pained me to see my state head in this hateful direction. But this fight is only just beginning - and you can help.
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