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Originally Posted by bc-chris
New Era - thanks for your post. i'm wondering if you could clarify/expand on one point....
are there less places to vote making it more difficult?
i can't imagine that they are denied access to a voting location due to skin colour becuz that would be all over the news.
i'm just curious as to some examples.
it's quite sad and totally not right if stuff is happening to restrict people from voting.
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This is an example of the systemic racism that impacts people of color. Yes, it is harder to vote for black and brown people, and yes it has been documented in the media. Voter ID laws greatly impact black and brown people more than they impact white people.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...-latino-voters
https://temple-news.com/stop-blaming...r-suppression/
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics...-study/517218/
https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/...oter-id-racism
Polling locations in black and brown communities are limited while being plentiful in white communities.
https://www.governing.com/topics/pol...ck-voters.html
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaig...ger-wait-times
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...losures-voting
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...e-court-ruling
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...-idUSKCN1VV09J
https://www.motherjones.com/politics...-lebron-james/
I find it funny that people refuse to believe in the existence of systemic racism when the constitution of the United States has the very language that initiated systemic racism codified in the language of the document itself. The 3/5th compromise, granted to bring the southern slave owning states into the union, clearly states the inequity that black people are forced to live through. Any yes, those very same states have grand father clauses that allow them to continue to push systemic racism and disenfranchisement of minorities. This is still a massive problem in the country and something that needs to be resolved for real equity to be established.