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Dear Friend, Voting rights are under attack across the nation, and I want you to help protect them! When the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act last year, it got rid of a powerful tool to end discrimination at polling places.  States and localities across the country are now enacting and implementing anti-voter rules that will keep many Americans' voices from being heard. I'm asking Congress to stand up for every voter and fix the VRA -- will you join me? http://www.commoncause.org/FixTheVRA Thanks! Don't believe it? Need more proof? Well, here ya' go! https://www.aclu.org/secure/congress-repair-voting-act This is what happened because Congress didn't fix the voting rights act Texas sees surge of disenfranchised voters Well, I know that's about all people can take in at one time. And I'm leaving the commentary out because I have some other things I need to write about. But right now, this issue feels very urgent. People...

I had a conversation a few days ago with my niece, Jasmine Shortt, about the importance of young African Americans knowing and understanding the history of what people have sacrificed over the past 400+ years, so that long standing institutions based on racial hatred, assumed superiority and economic benefits for the ruling class no longer have the type of stranglehold and taint on this country that they did at one time. Many young people don't know, or if they do, they don't understand what it means to them because people have a tendency to preach instead of teach . In my opinion, history has be broken down, put into context, and made personal to THEM . Otherwise, it's all about the Hamlet effect: "Words, words, words." What I told Jasmine is that many people died so that her grandparents, my parents, could own their home at 8420 Fawcett Avenue in Tacoma, Washington and at 2124 Kirk Way in Sacramento, California. The house in Tacoma was in a mostly White ...