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Good morning,
I wanted to send this letter to you to personally give my point of view on some things I feel may help you. As you are probably well aware Democrats around the country yourself included are having an issue with a declining vote within the black community. The talking points on media stations like CNN and MSNBC are that the Democratic party has an issue with messaging to the black community. That is not the issue. The issue is that there is nothing to message about. Nothing/Very little has been done specifically for the black community. A lot of us view things you have done as nothing more than symbolism. Now while you may have meant well with things like Juneteenth, Hip Hop Appreciation month, & the selection if Kentanji Brown these things do nothing to substantively change my everyday life. We were already celebrating Juneteenth. Most people who are truly anti-black aren't going to celebrate it now or start listening to Hip Hop just because you federally recognized it. So while these things are nice I honestly view it as nothing. Then there is the Emmet Till Anti-Lynching Act which any person with a tad bit of legal knowledge is going to view as a nothing. All it did was amend U.S.C Title 18 to say that lynching is now a hate crime. Not even that lynching specifically of black people is a hate crime but just in general. So let's run a scenario then.... Prior to passage of the act a white man lynches a black man and is caught. He gets locked up and goes to jail. After passage of the act a white man lynches a black man and is caught. He gets locked up and goes to jail. Nothing fundamentally changed. If being locked up and losing your freedom didn't deter you from lynching me then the fact it is a hate crime surely won't either. An actual hate crimes legislation that would make us a protected class, actual police reform(with punishment), reparations would all help you get us back involved.
Short of this you have lost my vote and lots of others.
I wanted to send this letter to you to personally give my point of view on some things I feel may help you. As you are probably well aware Democrats around the country yourself included are having an issue with a declining vote within the black community. The talking points on media stations like CNN and MSNBC are that the Democratic party has an issue with messaging to the black community. That is not the issue. The issue is that there is nothing to message about. Nothing/Very little has been done specifically for the black community. A lot of us view things you have done as nothing more than symbolism. Now while you may have meant well with things like Juneteenth, Hip Hop Appreciation month, & the selection if Kentanji Brown these things do nothing to substantively change my everyday life. We were already celebrating Juneteenth. Most people who are truly anti-black aren't going to celebrate it now or start listening to Hip Hop just because you federally recognized it. So while these things are nice I honestly view it as nothing. Then there is the Emmet Till Anti-Lynching Act which any person with a tad bit of legal knowledge is going to view as a nothing. All it did was amend U.S.C Title 18 to say that lynching is now a hate crime. Not even that lynching specifically of black people is a hate crime but just in general. So let's run a scenario then.... Prior to passage of the act a white man lynches a black man and is caught. He gets locked up and goes to jail. After passage of the act a white man lynches a black man and is caught. He gets locked up and goes to jail. Nothing fundamentally changed. If being locked up and losing your freedom didn't deter you from lynching me then the fact it is a hate crime surely won't either. An actual hate crimes legislation that would make us a protected class, actual police reform(with punishment), reparations would all help you get us back involved.
Short of this you have lost my vote and lots of others.