Lead by your local Black Kids Table.
“Let’s call these laws what they are. They’re a poll tax. Poll taxes have been outlawed in the United States for decades, as their only purpose is to discourage poor people from voting. Just because you move the tax from the polling location to the DMV, doesn’t mean it somehow becomes legal. As long as licenses cost money, and as long as you need a license to vote, you’re preventing people with less money from participating in the basic function of a Democracy. It’s classist. It’s racist. It’s disgusting.
I think we can balance it out though. We just have to appeal to the most efficient and understanding organization in the government: state departments of motor vehicles. Who’s more flexible and helpful than your local DMV? Sure, if you need to get a new license or register a vehicle, the DMV is happy to not assist you in any way at all, but what I’m suggesting would actually appeal to their employees’ sense of patriotism, general dissent, and unrelenting laziness. From now until November, all drivers licenses should be free.
Now, before you misunderstand me, I don’t mean that anyone should just be able to waltz down to a DMV and get a license just by asking nicely. No, you should still have to take the test and do your parallel parking, three point turns, and whatever else you have to do these days to legally get behind the wheel of a car. I’m just saying that at the end of that, you shouldn’t have to pay a dime to get your license. This isn’t socialism either. It’s just a way to make sure everyone who can vote will be able to. The pretend voter fraud will still be eliminated and poor people will still be able to elect Barack Obama to his second term as President of the United States. Everyone’s happy, except for Mitt Romney and his little brother Paul Ryan.
We need to contact state DMV’s and state officials and let them know that this program isn’t really optional. Again, poll taxes are illegal, so until drivers licenses are free in these states, these voter ID laws are unconstitutional. Make no doubt about it, as of right now, it technically illegal to have to pay for a driver’s license in Georgia, Indian, Kansas, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, or Tennessee, so call them up and let them know. Seriously. Flood their offices with calls. If there’s one thing DMV workers love, it’s talking on the phone, but they’re bashful sometimes, so if they pretend like they don’t want to talk, just call them again until you get through.
- Georgia Department of Driver Services - (404) 657-9300
- Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles – (888) 692-6841
- Kansas Division of Motor Vehicles – (785) 296-3963
- Mississippi Department of Driver Services – Email LWilson@dps.ms.gov and ask them for their phone number.
- Pennsylvania Department of Transportation Driver and Vehicle Services - 1-800-932-4600
- Tennessee Department of Driver Services - (615) 253-5221
Together, we can reverse this discriminatory law, and irritate the piss out of a bunch of salty DMV workers. It’s a win win. It’s the American Dream.”
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“We don’t need to hear your feelings about our issues. “To be fair, as a white person—-” “Nononono, shut the FUCK up.””
When you try and say you’re not voting for Obama because he’s bad for people of color,
while people of color are telling you that Obama is who’s going to be best for us,
you’re fucking up.
To name a few, Cornel West, Tavis Smiley, and everyone at Black Agenda Report are not saying such things. In fact, they are saying the very opposite. I feel pretty fucking confident in saying that the Black Panthers, Martin Luther King Jr., Stokely Carmichael, and Malcom X would not give Obama the time of day. I know that the majority of the black community wants Obama, but nobody is really asking why they want him. The PoC population in the United States has been held hostage by the Democratic party for well-over half a century.
Obama has addressed a few social issues, but he hasn’t done anything legitimately good for all of us little people, especially PoC. Oh, your healthcare is a bit cheaper? You’re a young undocumented immigrant and you get to stay in the U.S. as long as you go to college or join the military here? Wake up and smell the bullshit. Healthcare is still insanely expensive, it is not of the best quality, and corporations will always win. Our imperialist military still gets over half of the country’s spending. It is next to impossible to go to school here without being indebted to a bank for the rest of your days. Obama doubled the number of deportations of undocumented immigrants in his first term compared to G.W. Bush’s first term. Guess what? It’s election year and Obama was running the risk of losing the Hispanic vote. I’m not trying to come off as superior, but Obama is just terrible. To entertain the possibility of Obama being a legitimately good man who became president to make some radical, revolutionary changes: stop putting so much faith in a president. It won’t turn out good.
I may be white, but I think that when you say Obama is good for anyone, you’re fucking up. Excuse me, he’s great for capitalists, warlords, dictators, statists, and white people.
/edited to add PoC
omg this cracker said Martin Luther King wouldn’t vote for Obama.
(Source: owsposters)
White privilege is being able to choose between one political party that supports you 100% of the time, and one political party that supports you 96% of the time.
