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Let's talk about a story out of Mississippi and systemic issues....

Belle of the Ranch

Belle of the Ranch

Society & Culture

4.91K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2020

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Well, howdy there, internet people? Let's be able again. So tonight we're going to talk about an election

0:07.7

commissioner in Mississippi. We're going to do this because we have a story. We have a story.

0:15.0

A lot of the stuff that we talk about on this channel,

0:19.0

they're big picture concepts.

0:21.0

You know, we've got statistics and numbers and facts and studies and all of this

0:26.6

stuff. It's abstract for a lot of people. Not everybody learns that way. A lot of people need a story. They need something that they can look at and

0:38.1

follow and then break it apart and look at each little piece and then they get it, where you could show them charts and statistics all day.

0:48.0

One of the things that we've been talking about a lot on this channel is how certain systemic issues are everywhere.

1:00.0

They invade every part of our society and because they're so prevalent it's hard to

1:06.5

pick out individual stories. We have that. Okay. Gail Harrison Welch posted this publicly on Facebook.

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I'm an election commissioner in Jones County Mississippi.

1:25.0

I'm concerned about voter registration in Mississippi.

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The blacks are having lots of events for voter registration.

1:38.1

People in Mississippi need to get involved too. Thank you for all you do. Did you catch that? The

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blacks, people, That's a pretty marked difference. I mean that's pretty pronounced.

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I'm an election commissioner.

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I'm concerned about voter registration.

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This is what's happening.

2:17.2

So one of the main conditions of systemic racism is voter suppression, negating the vote of minority groups.

2:30.0

It's exactly what's happening in this post. The concern is that quote the blacks

2:36.7

are going to have a lot more voters than the whites. If you are using fear of a minority group to motivate another group, it's

2:46.7

so they can maintain that institutional power, that systemic power. This is the reason voting districts look the way they do. They're

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