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Draymond Green have pooled their resources to launch the More Than A Vote campaign. Elsewhere, Chris Paul created a program that provided transportation to the polls for voters at historically Black colleges and universities in North Carolina. Now, Dwayne Wade is using his platform to discuss the importance of mobilizing Black voters as we near local elections in 2021 and congressional elections in 2022. “What I wanna say to all the Black people out there, all the marginalized peoples, we understand why the politicians are trying to silence the black voters,” he told Wall Street Journal Deputy Chief News Editor Darren Everson during a recent interview. ....
PEOPLE. “It’s because of our power.” (Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images) He continued, “Understand if we mobilize and we utilize what we have, and that’s our power, that it scares everybody. No one’s scared because of our muscles and because of our skin tone, they’re scared of us because of our power. And so, we want our kids to understand where they come from, who they are and don’t let the world step on them because of it.” Wade added, “That’s the message for everybody out there, the community: let’s mobilize, let’s utilize what we have and that’s our power together to create change, to make change, to have the life that we say we want.” ....
Dwyane Wade explains why politicians are attempting to ‘silence’ Black voters Gabrielle Union and Dwyane Wade (Photo credit: Bang Media) NBA legend Dwyane Wade became renowned not only for his aerial acrobatics and on-court exploits but also because of his uncanny relatability to the working class. D-Wade, as he is most often called, doesn’t feel detached from the travails of the disenfranchised and underrepresented. In fact, he remains intertwined in the affairs of the community, particularly in the sociopolitical realm. This is why Wade, 39, and his wife, Gabrielle Union, 45, are participating in The Wall Street Journal’s “The Future of Everything Festival.” According to the newspaper’s website, the three-day event features “unscripted interviews and interactive workshops” with “entrepreneurs, artists, athletes, scientists and thinkers” who all come together for “a first look at the seismic shifts occurring in the way we live, ....