who is a rising junior at howard university, and as fathers of daughters know, sometimes they will come to you and say very prophetic things. after watching the news, my daughter came in to me and said something i did not expect her to say. she said, dad, it seems to me like we won the battle but someone wants to make sure that we lose the war. and that is the message that is being sent to our young people with these new voter id laws. we won the battle. with the passage of all the civil rights act and voting rights acts. we win the battle every year every time we get the voting rights act funded and reauthorized. however, some one sent back, after 2008, where there were 5 million new voters registered. 4 million of which were african-american. some one said it s time for them to lose the war and let s begin, let s put in place a strategy and execute the stakticstaktic tactics that will cause them to lose the the war, and let s catch them flatfooted while the cheering and c
so we need to be in the social media outlets, be on the forefront saying this is our stance on this issue. we don t agree with it or we do agree with it depending on what the issue is and we need to make sure that we re heard. we can t shy away from that. so i think in order to counteract, you know, what we re hearing from the opposite end, we need to be as forceful as they are in expressing where we are on an issue. thank you very much. i think probably all of us know how low down these people are that we deal with out here. you know, this is when we voted four years ago, it was historic. and everybody wanted to be a part of history. but we have to make people understand today is that now it is personal. we have a personal stake in what goes on. so my question really kind of becomes, how do we get past the point of just complaining about what someone has done to us? we know that in every single congressional district throughout this country that black vote can make or br
the same people for their money to run those organizations that s causing us trouble in the first place. now this is serious business. they can t get the money from our community. and so i was shocked when i learned that the very superpac that was responsible for supporting the work of getting these legislatures online to require more identification, et cetera, was the same ones we vote for every day in the congress. these are the ones that are considered, you know, at&t. and all of your big organizations who are supporting and giving millions of dollars to a superpac that s undermining your rights. so we have a responsibility to know this stuff. and to be able to leverage and to talk with them about it when they come and ask us for something. the other thing is this. we all belong not everybody. we all belong to the democratic party. and the democratic party raises millions of dollars and it decides how it s going to spend them. we are the base bone of the democratic party
ballot that could be president of the united states and did become president of the united states. 2010 in the midterm elections, they thought their job was done. they didn t go to the polls and we lost the congress of the united states. and as i campaign now, there is an enthusiasm gap out there. why? is there an enthusiasm gap? we can sit here and talk all that we want about what they should do and why it is important to talk about the labor issues. but people who don t have no job don t care about the labor issues. you know what i m saying? and so i want to just take this in a respectful place. and that is this. this joblessness, thesis home foreclosures, what s happening in our communities got people turned off. they are not jumping up and down about voting this time. and as i go through the communities, all i can think about, even though this does not sound that sophisticated is, the politics that talked about a ticket in every pot. people are puhungering. they don t hav