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AUGUST 30, 2021

Snapshots, August 23-29 Georgia Vote Suppression Backfires; 95% Registered

GOP effort to suppress the black vote isn't working

California gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder

Larry Elder: Could This Black MAGA Become Next CA Gov? He is everything Trump voters love: a selfnegating black man, a bigot, a homophobe, anti-immigrant. This Fox News hack, who thinks social programs like Obamacare and Social Security are Commie plots, is posiiioned to be elected Governor of California, the most progressive of blue states, in about 2 weeks when a special election will be held to decide if Gov. Gavin Newsom should be recalled. His infraction: making Californians fight the COVID19 pandemic by locking down the state last year and wearing masks. We will know on September 14 if the voters will send America's most populous state back about 500 years.

The cynical idea was to drive down the black vote in Georgia in 2022 and beyond when Georgia Republicans passed the state's draconian voter suppression laws just after they lost the Peach State to Joe Biden, Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff just months ago. You remember the ones, where they eliminated voting on Sunday and mail-in ballots, even making it a crime to give drinking water to voters waiting on line, and plans to rig the ballots in black precincts in such a way as to insure a GOP win. So what has been the response from Georgians? The figures released last week show that 95% of the state's voters are now registered. Even with the vote-rigging and Herschel Walker's cynical run for Senate against Warnock, it's still unlikely that Georgia will revert to its ugly Jim Crow past anytime soon.

GOP Beating Up On Kamala Again To Trump-worshipping Republican sycophants, Vice President Kamala Harris, the first woman of color in that office, can do nothing right. They don't like her background as a Caribbean-Indian from liberal San Francisco, her career in law enforcement, her fairly moderate views, even her clothes and laugh - and, of course, her sex. The nonstop racism and sexism campaign has driven her poll numbers down. Now they criticize a pending trip to Vietnam as somehow kowtowing to Communists, forgetting that we normalized relations in 1991 and that country has become a magnet for Western tourism and capitalism.

March on Washington 58 Years Later

Don't Fool Yourself: This Can Happen Again

The magic that took place on August 28, 1963, when 300,000 people, mainly African American but many whites of goodwill as well, marched on the Capitol rotunda to hear Rev. Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream" speech and protest for jobs and equal rights. Their efforts paid off with landmark civil rights legislation that decade.. Those same laws currently face extinction by a right-leaning Supreme Court, a feckless Congress and racist Republicans. Blacks marched again, on the same spot, on August 28, 2021, and asked for the same things all over again. So much for progress.

FROM FACEBOOK "BLACK HISTORY FACTS":

This Week In Black History

Kathy Hochul, New York's new governor, nominates state Sen. Brian Benjamin, an African American, for lieutenant governor, 2021 Race riot in Houston, between black soldiers and white citizens, 1917 1st African American, Edith Sampson, appointed as a representative to the UN, 1950 National Association of Colored Nurses founded, 1952 Pop singer Aaliyah dies in a plane crash, 2001 Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie (b. 1892) die, 1975 Thinker/activist W.E.B. DuBois (b. 1868) die, 1963 1st black, Rev. Channing Phillips, placed in nomination for President by a major party (Democrats), 1968 Mal Goode of ABC News becomes the first network news correspondent, 1962 NOTABLE BIRTHS: Tennis pro Althea Gibson (1927-2003); NBA legend Kobe Bryant (19782020); Comedian Dave Chappelle (1973); Jazz musician Charlie "Bird" Parker (1920-1955); Pop star Michael Jackson (1958-2009)

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