On 1/20/2022 9:08 AM, Lee wrote:
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> Black Americans ‘are voting in just as
> high a percentage as Americans’
Republicsums/QAnon just can't help themselves. This is how they tell us that
their agenda is white supremacy, and *only* white supremacy.
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> Mitch McConnell caused many jaws to
> drop on Twitter when he responded to
> a question from a journalist about
> concerns of voters of colour.
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> The Senate minority leader was speaking
> alongside members of Republican
> leadership at a press conference on
> Wednesday evening when he was asked by
> Latino Rebels correspondent Pablo
> Manriquez about his message to voters
> afraid that without voting access
> protections that would be in place if
> the Democrats’ voting rights legislation
> were to pass, they will be unable to vote.
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> His response elicited a wave of criticism
> on Twitter for a choice of words that
> appeared to establish a difference between
> “African-Americans” and “Americans”,
> referring to white people.
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> “Well, the concern is misplaced, because
> if you look at the statistics, African-
> American voters are voting in just as
> high a percentage as Americans,” the
> Republican leader remarked to reporters.
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/mitch-mcco
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reddit.com
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