'What happened in Georgia on Tuesday is why Stacey Abrams is on the short-list of candidates to become the Democratic nominee for vice president,' Issac Bailey writes for CNNOpinion
Issac Bailey is a longtime journalist based in South Carolina and the Batten Professor of Communication Studies at Davidson College. He's the author of"My Brother Moochie: Regaining Dignity in the Face of Crime, Poverty, and Racism in the American South." His next book,"Why Didn't We Riot? A Black Man in Trumpland," will be released by Other Press this year. The views expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion on CNN.
What happened in Georgia on Tuesday is why Stacey Abrams is on the short-list of candidates to become the Democratic nominee for vice president. It's why the Republican Party's problems with black voters go well beyond President Donald Trump and his bigotry. It's also why the racial ignorance of men like Supreme Court Justice John Roberts presents a threat to any long-term reform in voting, policing or anything else aimed at finally ridding the United States of systemic racism. Issac BaileyGeorgia was, essentially, a third-world country Tuesday. Citizens attempting to cast their votes in the state's primary had to stand in line for several hours, particularly those in areas with a higher percentage of black and brown residents.
The Republican Party and Trump seem more outraged by phony claims of widespread voter fraud than they are about an uncomfortably-high percentage of black and brown voters being denied the vote. The Bipartisan Policy Center estimates that maybe a half million failed to vote in 2016 because of polling problems. The legacy of this era will be with us long after Trump has left the White House. The GOP has made it clear that it would rather keep black people from voting than trying to win them over.
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