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| The Votes of Black Americans Should Count Twice |
| 2020-12-20 |
| [The Nation] Black votes in this country are worth less than white votes. Joe Biden won the Electoral College because Black voters in Atlanta, Detroit, Milwaukee, and Philadelphia turned out in significant numbers. But even with overwhelming Black support—94 percent of Detroit voted for Biden!—the outcomes in Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania were worryingly close. One core problem is the Electoral College. Wyoming, which has just 580,000 residents and is 93 percent white, gets three electors because of its two senators and one representative in the House. By comparison, Georgia’s Fifth Congressional District—which includes Atlanta, has 710,000 residents, and is 58 percent Black—has no dedicated electors or senators and can only occasionally overcome the mostly white and conservative votes from elsewhere in the state. This devaluation of Black votes allows our political system to ignore Black lives, and the consequences are devastating. Unequal representation has led to unequal health care outcomes, which the Covid-19 pandemic has only worsened. Without sufficient voting power, Black communities receive substandard education, and politicians are free to appoint judges who sanction mass incarceration, abusive policing, and electoral disenfranchisement. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #9 ^Modern education system - especially in teacher colleges, is garbage. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-12-20 18:20 |
| #8 Yeah, grom, "taxpayers" vs. "citizens", with the latter living on the dole. Not that the taxpayers had much say in the government, anyway, since the Senate had all the real power. Today, though, we don't have off-world colonies to exile the "citizens" who run afoul of the law. As for the story -- minorities should be careful demanding power out of scale with their actual presence. And their "substandard education" systems are not the result of lack of power -- every city I'm aware of has majority black run school boards and administration -- but the lack of care. If the community demanded a for-real, "three R's" education without the latest education school Marxist fad, their schools would quickly outpace suburban schools still enamored with ed school credentials. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2020-12-20 16:32 |
| #7 ^Jerry Pournelle "Future History". |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-12-20 12:23 |
| #6 How about we give people the right to vote when they pay actual taxes on income from working or retirement? Only citizens participants ,no felony criminal record, with confirmed voter ID linked to birth records? Then maybe the people elected might actually want to do the things that improve a limited government while mostly staying out of fhe way? |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2020-12-20 12:21 |
| #5 State of Montana gets less representation than districts in Florida because they count foreigners in the apportionment of representatives rather than just citizens. It's all about power, nothing more. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-12-20 06:45 |
| #4 Blacks already vote 2 times, or 5 times or 10 times if you live in the right black controlled cities. However many votes are needed to ensure a Democratic Party win, no matter the actual vote count. |
| Posted by: Ulavirong Omeager2818 2020-12-20 04:43 |
| #3 But not three times as happens today? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-12-20 02:09 |
| #2 94% of Detroit voted for Biden! Don't you assholes see how ludicrous that statement is? Do you think he's Ceausescu or Brezhnev? This muppet didn't even knock on any doors in Detroit. Trump doubled his share of the black male vote. And you expect us to believe that the basement boy got more votes than Soetoro got in 2016? From a county which never gets participation above 67%? Keep on dreamin'. The only way Biden "won" Brezhnev-levels of black voters in Detroit is through fraud. |
| Posted by: Glomolet Jones6536 2020-12-20 01:58 |
| #1 Blacks have not done well in improving their lot through the vote. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2020-12-20 01:48 |