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Gore: Republicans Actually Believe Only the Wealthy, Powerful Should Vote

Former Vice President Al Gore said on Monday on CNN’s “Tonight” that Republicans believed that the United States “would be better if the wealthy and powerful” voted.

Lemon said, “The next big battle, you know it is going to be over the GOP to restrict voting rights. A lot of these bills target Black and brown voters. Is this only going to get worse as demographics continue to change and Republicans are increasingly in the minorities? Is their effort is going to pick up to disenfranchise voters, especially those of color?”

Gore said, “Absolutely. This is really and truly un-American Don. This is a naked effort trying to suppress Black, brown and indigenous voters. Suppress any kind of votes from people who they think will not go for the far-right, promote the interests of the wealthy program. Let me give them their credit. I think they actually believe that this country would be better if the wealthy and powerful had more control over all the decisions.”

He continued, “History has proven that when we expand the rights to vote and more people vote and when all points of view and background and perspective brought together, we make better decisions. That’s one of the secret strengths of America. So we need to expand access to voting. Everybody who is an American citizen ought to be automatically registered to vote. We ought to have voting on weekends instead of on just Tuesday, on a workday. We ought to have more absentee voting. There is no record of voter fraud, one or two little cases every once in a while. We ought to bring everyone into the voting booth and have everyone taking part in helping to guide this nation.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/03/15/gore-republicans-actually-believe-only-the-wealthy-powerful-should-vote/

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CNN’s Sellers: Not About ‘Somebody Calling You N*’ — It’s About Ron Johnson’s Role in Systemic Racism

Former South Carolina state representative and CNN political analyst Bakari Sellers said Monday on “Anderson Cooper 360” that Sen. Ron Johnson’s (R-WI) role as a lawmaker made his comments more concerning than if he had used the “n-word.”

In a soundbite from “The Joe Pags Show,” last week, Johnson said, “I’m also criticized because I made the comment that on January 6, I never felt threatened because I didn’t. And mainly because I knew even though those thousands of people there were marching on the Capitol were trying to pressure people like me to vote the way they wanted me to vote. I knew those are people that love this country, that truly respect law enforcement, would never do anything to break the law. So I wasn’t concerned. Had the tables been turned —this could get me in trouble — had the tables been turned and President Trump won the election, and those were tens of thousands of Black Lives Matter and Antifa protesters, I might have been a little concerned.”

Sellers said, “You know when people are making racist comments, the first thing they want to push back with is simply say, you know, ‘You can’t play the race card,’ but it’s our job to call it out. I’m not surprised, and I am not disappointed anymore. Nothing about this is new. This is as American as American can be, but I’m troubled because this coming from the highest part of the land. This is coming from the United States Senate, the United States Congress.”

He continued, “Racism in this country is a power construct. People like Ron Johnson have the power and the ability to implement racist policies even when they’re ignorant to the fact that what they are doing is racist. This is not about somebody calling you n*. I get called that enough in my Twitter comments. I get called that in my messages when I leave CNN every single day. It’s not about that. It’s about something more than that. It’s about the systemic oppression. It’s about the systemic racism and people like Ron Johnson who play a role in it and are so ignorant to the fact to the role they play that they sit there and simply turn their back and say don’t play the race card.”

Sellers added, “Either you’re using racism as political currency, which is cowardice, or you so simply are ignorant and do not know the language you’re using is racist and hurtful.”

He concluded, “Just think about Ron Johnson being more sympathetic to cop-killers and anti-Semites and people carrying Confederate flags than Black folk protesting. But it not just about Ron Johnson. That’s what I’m trying to tell folk. When we talk about systemic oppression, imagine the Ron Johnson that works at Wells Fargo, who is your loan officer and looks at you as less valuable than a white guy who comes in there. Or imagine Ron Johnson as your professor or teacher who looks at you as less intelligent. Imagine Ron Johnson as a police officer that pulls you over on the side of the road who thinks you’re more of a danger than a white boy. See, that is what we’re talking about when we talk about this systemic injustice. Ron Johnson creates the laws. We got to call it out and push back.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/03/15/cnns-sellers-not-about-somebody-calling-you-n-its-about-ron-johnsons-role-in-systemic-racism/

Estonia's prime minister tests positive for COVID-19

Newly elected Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas has tested positive for COVID-19 and says she will self-quarantine until she has recovered from the virus.

The 43-year-old Ms Kallas, who became the Baltic nation’s first female head of government in January, said overnight she was feeling well apart from a small fever and hasn’t developed any other symptoms.

“I am closely monitoring my health and staying at home until I recover,” Ms Kallas said in a Facebook post, adding that she would continue performing prime minister’s duties from home including holding remote Cabinet and other meetings.

https://www.9news.com.au/world/estonias-prime-minister-tests-positive-for-covid19/b1bfdea2-e511-4447-a078-57b2e2061fee

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>Confession: I'm Canadian. My perspective on racism may differ from yours. Eh