#blackvote — Public Fediverse posts

Crockett Supporters Don’t Want to Fall in Line - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-dSsso6pMo
#TheAmazingLucas #BlackVote #EarnTheVote #Texas #jamesTalarico #JasmineCrockett #Opinion #Analysis #DemocratPrimaries

#ZohranMamdani and the “Black Vote”

Mamdani struggled against #AndrewCuomo in majority-Black precincts — but his lackluster performance may not tell the whole story.

from #TheIntercept
Mychal Denzel Smith
July 18 2025, 2:30 p.m.

Last month’s results in some 15 percent of voting precincts with majority-Black populations, though, don’t tell the whole story. Rather than being a race about a mythically monolithic “#BlackVote,” #Mamdani’s campaign could show us a different side of politics in #NewYork — one that speaks to #Black voters based on their material needs.

Staying on message about affordability was Mamdani’s route to victory in the primary, and it could hold the key in the general, too. If he can win over some Black voters — rather than the “Black vote” — he may yet again shock political observers and land himself in the mayor’s office. His foes, however, are already seizing on his primary performance.

#USA #US #USPolitics #NYC #BlackMastodon
#news #press #politics

Louisiana's recent election results delivered a stunning blow to Republican Governor Jeff Landry, highlighting the overwhelming impact of Black voters. His proposed amendments faced fierce opposition, with nearly two-thirds rejecting them, signaling a shift in grassroots political power led by activists. This outcome serves as a potent reminder of community engagement in democratic processes, urging other states to learn from Louisiana’s triumph. Read more about this pivotal moment [here](https://www.joyannreid.com/p/that-louisiana-win-is-a-bfd-and-a). #Louisiana #VotingRights #Grassroots #BlackVote #Democracy

Take The Near Impossible #LiteracyTest #Louisiana Used to Suppress the #BlackVote (1964)

in History, Politics | October 21st, 2024

"In William Faulkner’s 1938 novel The Unvanquished, the implacable Colonel Sartoris takes drastic action to stop the election of a black Republican candidate to office after the Civil War, destroying the #ballots of #BlackVoters and shooting two Northern carpetbaggers. While such dramatic means of #VoterSuppression occurred often enough in the Reconstruction South, tactics of electoral exclusion refined over time, such that by the mid-twentieth century the #JimCrowSouth relied largely on nearly impossible-to-pass literacy tests to impede free and fair elections.

"These tests, writes Rebecca Onion at Slate, were 'supposedly applicable to both white and black prospective voters who couldn’t prove a certain level of education' (typically up to the fifth grade). Yet they were 'in actuality disproportionately administered to black voters.'

"Additionally, many of the tests were rigged so that registrars could give potential voters an easy or a difficult version, and could score them differently as well. For example, the Veterans of the #CivilRights Movement describes a test administered in #Alabama that is so entirely subjective that it measures the registrar’s shrewdness and cunning more than anything else.

"The test here from #Louisiana consists of questions so ambiguous that no one, whatever their level of education, can divine a 'right' or 'wrong' answer to most of them. And yet, as the instructions state, 'one wrong answer denotes failure of the test,' an impossible standard for even a legitimate exam. Even worse, voters had only ten minutes to complete the three-page, 30-question document. The Louisiana test dates from 1964, the year before the passage of the #VotingRightsAct, which effectively put an end to these blatantly discriminatory practices."

Read more:
https://www.openculture.com/2024/10/take-the-near-impossible-literacy-test-louisiana-used-to-suppress-the-black-vote.html

#Disenfranchisement #VoterDisenfranchisement #VoterSuppression #History #USHistory #Elections2024

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump’s despicable stunts getting exposed. - https://youtu.be/rKPY1dpC8H0?si=fLGC2mMM8bpteCFQ #MeidasTouch #USPolitics #BenMeiselas #TrumpStunts #BlackVote #BlackVoters #JimCrow #JimCrowLaws #JimCrowEra #GOPClowns

For far too long, Lewis says, the concerns of Allendale residents have been neglected by a party that has taken rural Black voters for granted. #blackvote #democrats #allendalecounty
https://progressive.org/latest/in-south-carolina-democrats-aren%E2%80%99t-listening-decastro-20240202/

Proposed #Alabama map rejects Supreme Court-mandated second Black-majority district

#SCOTUS #ElectionMap #BlackVote
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4102476-proposed-alabama-district-map-rejects-supreme-court-mandated-second-black-majority-district/

#Alabama #ElectionMap diluted #BlackVote, Supreme Court rules

#SCOTUS
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65848749

#ChiefJustice #JohnRoberts wrote the majority opinion in the 5/4 ruling. He was joined by Justice Brett Kavanaugh & the court’s 3 liberal members, Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan & Ketanji Brown Jackson.

The chief justice wrote that there were legitimate concerns that the law “may impermissibly elevate #race in the allocation of #PoliticalPower within the states.”

#Gerrymandering #Vote #BlackVote #SCOTUS #Alabama #VotingRights #democracy #VRA

#SCOTUS Rejects #Voting Map That Diluted #BlackVoters’ #Power

#VotingRights advocates had feared the decision would undermine the #VotingRightsAct, which instead appeared to emerge unscathed.

The #SupremeCourt has made several rulings recently that have eroded the force of the #VRA & the achievements of the #CivilRights movement.

#Gerrymandering #Vote #BlackVote
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/08/us/supreme-court-voting-rights-act-alabama.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

@marcelias A message to #BlackMastodon - check this video out in this thread above: if y’all ain’t out here following Marc Elias then I don’t know what y’all doing with your lives! This man has been out here fighting for #votingrights , including the #blackvote , and winning every battle! This the one you wanna know and follow! Democracy and Voting Rights STAY on the docket! 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽@democracydocket