Connie Schultz Warns White People: 'This Fight Is Our Fight For Voting Rights' Too
"I am kind of worked up," she said. "But mostly because of listening to that Republican lawyer arguing before the Supreme Court. If the Republicans are so worried about being at a disadvantage to Democrats, they can do a number of things to change it."
Here comes the list:
"They can support voting rights, for example, and not try to be doing everything they can to support the oppression of voters. They can support reproductive rights.
She continued, "They, too, could have supported this bill that will now cut the poverty rate in half. And really importantly, they can finally acknowledge, they can take responsibility for supporting Donald Trump, whose disregard for American lives cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans, and has left us a nation in grief."
Capehart and Midwin Charles agreed, adding that one thing the GOP does NOT want to do is to tell Black people that they cannot vote. Capehart said that's "like them beating the hornet's nest."
Charles talked about the huge number of voter suppression laws passed since the Shelby decision, and insisted, "So the idea that Republicans think that they can tell Black people that they are not going to vote or that it's going -- they're going to make it more difficult to vote, all that does is incentivize and encourage more Black people to come out. If they have to wait on line for hours, they'll do it. If they have to bring snacks, they will do it. If they have to bring water, they will do it. And they will assist in getting people who are unable to access the polls such as elderly or the infirm, and they will get it done." If anything has shown this is true, look back at 2020 and 2018.
"As a white person, I'm going to say this to all the white Americans out there. We're either allies all the time or we're not allies. This fight is our fight for voting rights as well."
https://crooksandliars.com/2021/03/connie-schultz-jonathan-capehart-voting