Opinion | David Litt: 'Mass incarceration, which has had disproportionate effect on Black and brown communities, has been transformed into mass disenfranchisement in Black and brown communities.' - NBCNewsTHINK
— with the cuts falling disproportionately in minority neighborhoods.
On top of all these factors, a host of new state laws have been implemented to discourage voter registration drives, or to make it difficult for college students to vote on campus— all of which target Black, brown and young Americans. Furthermore, the political power of our country’s cities -– where most of this week’s protests have taken place -– has been severely diminished. Partisan gerrymandering, combined with the recent demographic trend of Democrats clustering in cities, have made urban areas home to some of the least competitive legislative districts in the nation. If you live in an urban area, your ballot almost certainly matters far less than it would if cast in the suburbs.
In other words, places such as Atlanta; Columbus, Ohio; and Detroit — scenes of clashes instigated by police against protesters — are also the places whose residents have the hardest time affecting the laws that might make those clashes less likely to occur in the future. Finally, there is a growing understanding that, despite our living in a government for, of and by the people, winning the battle for public opinion isn’t enough. Thanks to the electoral college, even if Californians and New Yorkers register to vote in droves, it won’t matter in the presidential election because the only voters who matter are those in swing states.
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