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As we wind down the sharing of calendar entries for #BlackHistoryMonth, it looks like we saved one of the BEST for (almost) last. If you followed yesterday's post about Black Senators, and the 86-year gap between the first two and the third, this page explains that. Worse, it still continues today. Why has there not been a massive class-action lawsuit against states refusing to let convicted felons vote? There is no Constitutional justification for that policy, and worse, there seems to be a systematic disenfranchising of Black voters through felony charges, often when those same crimes would be misdemeanors if committed by a non-Black defendant, and in some cases, made up entirely. If you've never seen the film American Violet, I highly recommend checking it out. https://lnkd.in/ewxn_zn6 It's the true story of how one small town in Texas changed election outcomes by rounding up Black people and coercing them into pleading to felonies just to be let out of jail, then kicking them out of public housing and taking away their voting rights. This went on for years. And let's not pretend Hearne, Texas is the only place that happened...
