Christmas will be here in 50 days. As they do every year, in anticipation of Black Friday (the shopping “holiday” the Friday after Thanksgiving), video game console manufacturers are going to be aggressively marketing their newest creations.
You might have already seen the commercial for the XBox Kinect which went live this week.
Awesome, right? You want to add it to your list, don’t you? Well, if you are what some might consider “dark skinned”, think again:
After an earlier alerttoday about voter suppression in South Carolina another story pops up over at DailyKos on Mizzum‘s Diary. We got in touch with her and wanted to share with our readers.
I just got back from my polling place in South Carolina – and I had to fight to cast my African American vote. This sweet little southern belle was the leader and she tried her cotton-pickin best to block me,
I just got a phone call early my time (7:40am PST) that there are Tea Partiers that are trying to prevent black people from voting. This is how racism works and why it’s so important that we fight back. If our right to vote wasn’t so powerful, there wouldn’t be folks working so hard to thwart it. I don’t have any more information than what I’ve been told below.
In Columbia South Carolina, I’m hearing that there are Tea Party folks at Benedict College. There’s a precinct there. They are protesting student votes and making them vote with provisional ballots. Please go down to this polling place if you are nearby or call the police if you are a resident. Benedict is one of our proudest HBCUs and these kids don’t deserve this as one of their first experiences voting in America.
In another report, the Tea Party is on the move at the North Hope Center precinct which is also known as Morris Brown at Sumter SC. These bigots are shouting at the hard working people who have taken time from work or school and are telling them not to vote. Apparently this is happening at more than one location in Sumter.
I’m waiting for photos and videos but again — if you live in SC, please help out by being a witness on the scene or asking a friend or family to help. Add your photos, testimony, video or just plain outrage in the comments.
These people make me sick. If you are seeing voter intimidation or suppression elsewhere, please tell us in the comments, call 1-866-OUR VOTE and/or add what you’re seeing to the Voter Suppression Wiki. If there’s violence afoot, call the cops.
THANK YOU. And hang in there. Steal back your vote, my peeps.
As I was having my day before midterm election freak out I noticed a couple of tweets saying something about MC Hammer dropping a Jay Z diss track and video. My brain wouldn’t accept that those words all in the same sentence.
