Activists working in John Lewis' shadow warn about voter suppression ahead of November
LaTosha Brown spent three hours in line last month waiting to vote in Georgia’s primary. After finally casting her ballot, she delivered pizza and encouragement to others in Black-majority districts of Atlanta who faced even longer delays.
“Do you know how traumatic it is in 2020 to wait out there five, six hours to vote?” says Brown, co-founder of the activist group Black Voters Matter. She says when she visited polling stations that day in largely white Atlanta neighborhoods she saw voters in and out in minutes.
Brown has a specific message for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky), who recently called reports of voter suppression “nonsense” while praising the late Georgia Democratic congressman and fierce voting rights advocate John Lewis as a “giant of American history.”
“McConnell should have come with me that night, because all I saw was evidence of attempts to suppress the Black vote,” she says. “You can praise John Lewis, but do you respect his values? Voting shouldn’t be a partisan issue, it's a democracy issue.”
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Which is why McConnell opposes it.
He is smart enough to know that if all voters were able to exercise their rights with a ballot, he and all republicans would be tossed out on their ears.
