By Gloria Dulan-Wilson Hello All: As we get closer to the primaries, and on to what may be the most crucial election ever - the struggle for the soul of America - there are going to be more and more solicitations for donations and support - count on it! If we don't support our candidates, whether they are local or national, we can count on things being infinitely worse after November 3, 2020.
And if you think the only thing you need to focus on is getting rid of the ersatz president, you're dead wrong. You have to make sure there is a Democratic majority in the Congress - House and Senate both - to not pay attention to these slots is to literally cripple the US - we are now in a death grip under the Repuglycon Party - who are lead in tandem by Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina - two former slave holding states, where the racism is still high! Of course there are other culprits as well that have to be excised by our votes and support, but these two are the ring leaders. The fact of life is that you can't get a person of your choice elected without financial support or VOTING. Like it or not, that's the way it is today. Thank goodness, President Obama made it possible for people to contribute regardless of what their financial situation. So whether you pitch in $3.00, $5.00, $25.00 or more, you can be instrumental in getting the right people in and ousting one of the most heinous regimes since Hitler started Nazi Germany. I'm sharing a copy of a solicitation I received from JAIME HARRISON who is running in South Carolina to oust a T-rump supporter, Lindsey Graham. Graham and McConnell have to go! Take a minute to click on the part where your name goes, send in your contribution and pass it on to your family, friends, church members, Sorority or Fraternity, associates, co-workers - you get my drift. Also make sure your family and friends and associates are registered to vote - especially you who are in the areas where voters are being purged - make sure they register again so they are not disenfranchised. We aren't going to win just by joking and badmouthing the current incumbent - we have to make this a full on attack.
This letter of solicitation was made to me. I'm sharing it with you - please follow up - it's a matter of life and death, sanity and insanity.
From dismantling affordable healthcare to defending Trump’s reprehensible immigrant family separation policy, Lindsey Graham has abandoned his principles in order to appease the far-right.
As the next Senator from South Carolina, I promise to always put all Americans -- including America’s most vulnerable -- first.
We have a real chance to demand better leaders who are only accountable to the people they were elected to serve.
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Hope
you're doing something to commemorate the greatness and the legacy of
our people in spite of and because of the oppression we've suffered for
more than 400 years.
i receive several requests to contribute to different candidates and causes. Some, to me, are more relevant than others, and I will share them with you from time to time. And, of course, anything about our living hero, John Lewis, I'm urging you to respond to immediately, if not sooner. The fact that our brother has consistently laid his life on the line is more than enough reason to contribute.
As I write this, I'm watching the movie, "SELMA," and reliving that period in our lives when whites were completely berserk - and the fact that Mr. Lewis put his life on the line and very nearly lost it. The depiction of his leadership, the graphic depiction of the brutality that took was leveled against us because we stood up for our rights - more than warrants our continued respect, love and support for this valiant brother and those who stood with him for our rights.
Selma is a pretty accurate depiction of what we went through to gain our basic rights in this country. Out of it emerged several heroes - including, of course, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Congressman John Lewis. There were many other heroes and sheroes, sung and unsung, who are the catalysts for forcing President John's hand in making sure we had our rights.
I was a sophomore student at Hampton Institute (now University) at that time, and had grown up sitting in and participating in the movement. We had originally planned to participate in the march, but were forbidden, on pain of expulsion, from going - even though we had several buses and hundreds of students prepared to leave, along with students from Lincoln University, to make that ride to a place I had never been to help people I didn't know. But they were our brothers and sisters - that was all we needed to know. We ended up sitting in on Hampton because they block our right to stand up for our rights (but that's another story for another day).
The horror that ensued in Alabama, something none of us expected - and I doubt seriously, had we been there, that we would have survived such brutality. I doubt that any of those who perpetrated the violence against innocent, unarmed people were ever arrested, or suffered any consequences for their heinous actions - with the exception of Gov. George Wallace being shot in the butt (we still laugh about that one), years later.
As a result of those valiant brothers and sisters' relentlessness, Pres. Lyndon Baines Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act. And the beginning of many other programs, recipitated by the insane racism on the part of his own Democrats, were enacted - many of which have been instrumental in leveling the playing field. (I might also add, his racist redneck Democrats were so pissed they decided to jump the party, become Republicans so they form a majority and vote him out of office - (which is how we got the repuglycon party we have today). But it didn't work - We had our rights for the first time, we voted, and we helped each other vote as well.
That was in 1965 - we are now in 2020 - Brother John Lewis is still standing and working for Black people's right. Show his how much you appreciate him.
So sign in and sign up and thank this brother and chip in your contribution as well.
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