A flyer from the Georgia Democratic Party invokes the events Ferguson, Missouri in response to the shooting of Michael Brown to encourage people to vote.
On one page of the flyer, reported by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the words “if you want to prevent another Ferguson in their future…” over a picture of two young African American children with signs that read “don’t shoot.”
The next page reads “vote” and “It’s up to you to make change happen.”
A third page of the flyer goes into more detail about the importance of early voting.
“If we want a better, safer future for our children, it’s up to us to vote for change,” the third page reads. “The choices may not always be perfect, but the cost of inaction is simply too great.”
One of the most high profile races int he 2014 election cycle is the Georgia race for U.S. Senate between Republican businessman David Perdue and Democrat Michelle Nunn. The New York Times reported earlier in the week that Democrats are hoping that strong Democratic turnout will help boost Nunn enough to beat Perdue.
See the pages of the flyer below:
The TPM Polltracker finds Nunn leading the rest of the field by 2.4 points.
Good. I’m glad they did it.
Hell the Republicans are doing far worse than that…people of color have a keen perspective of whats included in this flyer…hopefully it translates to going out and voting!
Unless of course you are one of the 40,000 votes Sec of State Kemp is trying to suppress…then you have to try even harder!
Only someone asleep would be unaware of the horrible statistics regarding African Americans and their precarious position in the Criminal Justice System.
In saner times, this theme would have been invoked weeks earlier. NOW, in TeaBagg U.S.A. this takes the form of a special headline, as I am sure a headline of a 1910 interracial marriage in plain sight would have brought forth a “special headline”.
Special headlines occur because they are they are describing something people would see as rare.
That’s how far we have to crawl back from the TeaBagg abyss Minnie Pearl and Billy Bob have dragged this country to. Young African Americans (the ones with target-on-back) are, unfortunately have to fight against TeaBagg Nation.
What makes me so upset about Baggers (in addition to everything else) is that they are from the Generation which, instead of one which carefully sought to pass along needed lore from the days of the Civil Rights struggle, is rather one which got high, demonstrated, dodged the Draft and then, when old and tired, decided to become Baggers, the very ones cheering TeaBagg policies
Yeah. I know it’s a manipulative tactic but it is a good way to motivate people to go ahead and go to the trouble to vote. One of these days, our collective effort will overpower that of the regressives who want to cling to white supremacy.
I’m afraid the Baggerdom demographics are multi-generational; therefore, it will take more than an actuary to defeat their odious ideology.