Politicians as De Santis are really playing with fire. I know that many US right-wingers see him as a pro-freedom politician, as regarding Florida's ranking on different list about freedom and development. But being pro-freedom is incompatible with right-wing collectivism, Christian nationalism, populism. People are less in favour of freedom, liberalisations, privatisations, openness, individualism if they are driven by xenophobia, racism, nationalism, populism and authoritarian behaviours
One horrible thing is that in GOP, there are individuals who think and feel that Israeli ethnocratic development is an inspiration for how America should be, as by becoming a nativist and racist ethno-state. Really dangerous
Peter - insofar as gerrymandering is concerned, both parties tried to do it. Unfortunately, republicans were better at it. And the New York courts didn't help the democrats. Insofar as what DeSantis did to Black districts, I personally see that more as an attempt to gerrymander in favor of Republicans than anything else (I could be wrong). Don't get me wrong, I probably like DeSantis as much as you do...
But both sides try to gerrymander - and the fact that it's even part of how our election process works, shows that there are huge flaws in the process. A system without districts (such as Israel's - yes, really, Israel) is inherently more fair.
If I were black, I would be insulted by this article. Are you suggesting that Black people are unable to find time in the day to vote the way white people are able to do so? You don’t think white people work in jobs that also might make it more difficult to get to a polling station? This idea that Black people need to be given extra help and protections, as if they were children, is patronizing and racist. 
'If I were black'...okay I'm gonna stop you right there. If you were black, your entire life experience would have been different than it is now, and you have no idea how you'd respond to anything compared to how you do now.
Moving on, having Election Day on a Tuesday, and not having it be a federal holiday, wasn't designed to disenfranchise just black people, but all working-class people. Black people are disproportionately likely to be working-class, so it disenfranchises them at a greater rate. It's not complicated. Plus, I noticed you conveniently ignored the additional context of much longer lines at polling stations in black neighborhoods.
Yes, after years and years of on-the-ground organizing work done to register and turnout black voters, which has gradually made it possible for what was once a red state to be more competitive. Early voting has also massively helped, particularly combined with the 'souls to the polls' efforts by churches to bus people in on Sunday, as well as absentee mail-in ballots. That's a huge factor in Georgia in particular.
It doesn't mean that the impediments don't exist, or that they have never suppressed turnouts. The median voter is whiter, wealthier, and older than the median American, that's just a fact.
While the State of Georgia had a great turnout, "Absentee ballots plunged from a total of 1.28 million in November 2020 to a little over 240,000 in last week's General Election"
He is also offering his documentary "Vigilante, Georgia's Vote Suppression Hitman" for free. In the movie he explains how many "Black" voters had been challenged. What he does not explain is why they, with his help didn't challenge White voters.
The link is at the above website, toward the bottom of the page
Marijuana / cannabis legalisation is very important also for combating racism and for improving criminal justice reform
Politicians as De Santis are really playing with fire. I know that many US right-wingers see him as a pro-freedom politician, as regarding Florida's ranking on different list about freedom and development. But being pro-freedom is incompatible with right-wing collectivism, Christian nationalism, populism. People are less in favour of freedom, liberalisations, privatisations, openness, individualism if they are driven by xenophobia, racism, nationalism, populism and authoritarian behaviours
One horrible thing is that in GOP, there are individuals who think and feel that Israeli ethnocratic development is an inspiration for how America should be, as by becoming a nativist and racist ethno-state. Really dangerous
Peter - insofar as gerrymandering is concerned, both parties tried to do it. Unfortunately, republicans were better at it. And the New York courts didn't help the democrats. Insofar as what DeSantis did to Black districts, I personally see that more as an attempt to gerrymander in favor of Republicans than anything else (I could be wrong). Don't get me wrong, I probably like DeSantis as much as you do...
But both sides try to gerrymander - and the fact that it's even part of how our election process works, shows that there are huge flaws in the process. A system without districts (such as Israel's - yes, really, Israel) is inherently more fair.
And while Chapelle is a comedian, I hope he’s read this letter to LeBron: https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-lebron-james-kyrie-irving-antisemitism-20221111-t6zhggr65nho3la4upmor67zjy-story.html
If I were black, I would be insulted by this article. Are you suggesting that Black people are unable to find time in the day to vote the way white people are able to do so? You don’t think white people work in jobs that also might make it more difficult to get to a polling station? This idea that Black people need to be given extra help and protections, as if they were children, is patronizing and racist. 
'If I were black'...okay I'm gonna stop you right there. If you were black, your entire life experience would have been different than it is now, and you have no idea how you'd respond to anything compared to how you do now.
Moving on, having Election Day on a Tuesday, and not having it be a federal holiday, wasn't designed to disenfranchise just black people, but all working-class people. Black people are disproportionately likely to be working-class, so it disenfranchises them at a greater rate. It's not complicated. Plus, I noticed you conveniently ignored the additional context of much longer lines at polling stations in black neighborhoods.
And Georgia, with a much larger per capita black population, had record turnout.
Yes, after years and years of on-the-ground organizing work done to register and turnout black voters, which has gradually made it possible for what was once a red state to be more competitive. Early voting has also massively helped, particularly combined with the 'souls to the polls' efforts by churches to bus people in on Sunday, as well as absentee mail-in ballots. That's a huge factor in Georgia in particular.
It doesn't mean that the impediments don't exist, or that they have never suppressed turnouts. The median voter is whiter, wealthier, and older than the median American, that's just a fact.
While the State of Georgia had a great turnout, "Absentee ballots plunged from a total of 1.28 million in November 2020 to a little over 240,000 in last week's General Election"
Greg Palast explains Gov. Brian Kemp's "Jim Crow 2.0" at https://www.gregpalast.com/mail-in-ballots-in-georgia-plunged-by-1-million-2/
He is also offering his documentary "Vigilante, Georgia's Vote Suppression Hitman" for free. In the movie he explains how many "Black" voters had been challenged. What he does not explain is why they, with his help didn't challenge White voters.
The link is at the above website, toward the bottom of the page