Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, explains why the tactics Donald Trump is using to challenge the outcome of the election are more than a means to an end but encourage a racist narrative for which he should be held to account. Aired on 11/24/2020.
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Let’s talk. As celebrations take place around the world for democracy the US has passed some devastating milestones – nearly 200,000 COVID-19 infections a day and 257,000 deaths. For many months some Americans have resisted wearing protective masks because they, “Take away freedom.” Is this really about taking away freedoms?
We are a county founded on the compassionate rule of law. We have seat belt laws and second-hand smoke laws. These are just two small examples of laws enacted to protect us when we cannot protect ourselves and each other. When functioning properly our representatives in government have the ability, as defined by constitutions, charters, etc., to do those things we cannot do all by ourselves. This may include building highways, providing K-12 education and let’s not forget protecting us from deadly forest fires, drinking water pollution and faulty medical devises. Governors, legislators and judges, in addition to the media, are working as best as they can, as quickly as they can and with the best available public health information to keep all of us safe; individually we do not have the collective expertise, human and financial resources to manage these challenges. If they need to do this legally by decree, executive order or other provisions allowed them during emergencies then they are doing their jobs.
Although most people are doing the best they can to save lives there are some powerful few who are literally killing people. Take Trump and his super spreader events. A Stanford University study found his rallies have killed 700 people and infected 30,000. Columbia University published a study recently on how 130,000-210,000 lives could have been saved if the Trump administration and his devotees had not politicized science a pandemic that has infected over 53 million and killed 1,300,000 world-wide – so far. Approximately 40% of the infected are asymptomatic and never know they may be spreading COVID according to the CDC.
There is good news. The US government may start distributing a vaccine by the end of the year. It will go to the most vulnerable populations first including front line workers. It does take weeks after the first inoculation for the vaccine to take full effect and more than one booster shot may be necessary. No one knows the duration of immunity for anyone who has recovered from Coronavirus or from any particular vaccine. Pfizer vaccine showed 90% immunity but only for seven days. More needs to be understood. Perhaps the singular greatest problem with regard to vaccines is that too many people have been dissuaded from even getting vaccinated at all. If that is the case, it will prolong moving forward precipitously. It is possible we may be wearing masks well through 2021. Our best line of defense remains masks, social distancing, etc. By taking these basic precautions the University of Washington projects we can save over 65,000 lives by March 2021. Remember, this virus is about 8X deadlier than the 2019 flu and is the third leading cause of death in the US only behind heart disease and cancer. Please fact-check this information yourself. Facing the truth is empowering, freeing. The sooner the more people accept reality, the sooner we can recover together as a country – grieve those we have loved and lost – and collectively address other urgent concerns.
One last thing – we are fortunate. Do the people resisting wearing a mask really have no understanding of what is true loss of your freedoms? Have we learned nothing from history: slavery, disenfranchisement, imprisonment in jails, ghettos and concentration camps, inscription into armies, forced marriage, starvation… Over 85,000 children (under five) in Yemen have died since 2015 directly because of US foreign policy. Currently, 16 million more Yemen children, women and men face starvation but we can still save them by providing immediate emergency assistance with our International allies. We just have to care enough about their freedom, their literal right to life. I’d like to believe we are capable of understanding false equivalences of facial coverings and the right to life, freedom from extreme suffering. This may not be what we have expected but it is nothing new, not really. And we each have superpowers – our infinite capacity for creative adaptation and a little thing called love. – Please feel free to share this post. Take care, stay safe out there and thank you.
Steve H.
Well said, I’m with you on that point.
Just watching this clown on TV makes me want to knock him silly. God Bless you and your family always.
To persist in evil makes God helpless. His wrath is coming, I doubt Covid is part of it. Watch how He will treat the DEMS values. ‘NO HORRORS WILL MATCH WHAT WILL COME, AND HAS NOT EVER SEEN BEFORE, OR WILL EVER FOLLOW AGAIN, WHAT TRIBULATION IS TO COME SOON” *PARAPHRASED.
**ALL THE SIGNS JESUS SPOKE OF, ARE HERE, NOW.**
@Jim Terry You are a troll who opened your account November 23 – yesterday. I mute trolls who only seek to distract, disrupt and divide and who preach hate not love. Others will mute you too and report you if necessary. Goodbye.
@Nine Fools Wise I feel cut to the quick. You’re so smart. ?
So you Blocked me. I’m so hurt. Can I still get to heaven? My liege, grant a pardon, pls. *(and send me $50 bucks). I need another Bible. You take care now, ya hear! Love ya. MAGA…
Nine Fools Wise well said! Nice to see you stay positive, as possible.
We all know the virus doesn’t care if Jesus loves you.
Brilliant rightly said…..USA needs persons like you…
Steve H.
Well said my dear lady, you hit the nail on the head with precision. GO LADY
GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY ALWAYS PEACE
Thank you, for your well spoken courage, knowledge and common sense, Sherrilyn Ifill.
Shameful what he did..
She is the right person for this position.
“Grotesque”. That is the word I was searching for. Extremely Grotesque.
Steve H
That is the perfect word for this clown.
@Steven Hilton I am appalled he has blind followers as though he cares for them…this is a man who cannot relate to the regular common working class citizen and only panders to them to deceitfully get them to vote for him..
he wants to run America like he OWNS it…
@Lotus 444 Rump spent a lifetime pretending he is a average guy, in reality he was raised like an ritch brat and others exist to serve him. Only the ignorant can’t see through Rumps very obvious truth
100% sickens me to my core. Now, the Southern Strategy must die.
Absolutely.
You ain’t whistling Dixie.
@hawkturkey ouch
i find it funny that you believe this garbage
100% in agreement. Republicans were trying to cast doubt on votes from Black voters.
13% black population on average but the counties he wanted to undermine were around 85% black. Same with the counties in GA he was trying to overthrow.
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Robert H. ???? more blacks voted for Trump than ever before and more blacks left the dem party in the History of our country!!!! Democrats are not Americans!
An interesting fact is in Georgia Joe got slightly less proportion of the black vote than Hillary. Inner city Atlanta still of course favoured Joe but the predominantly white suburbs Joe did much better than Hillary. Although distribution was very uneven Joe got the highest popular vote margin for 90 years or something so it was in one respect a landslide win for Joe.
There is NO DOUBT Trump & the GOP had “1/5th person” in mind. NO DOUBT. Those “our sh*t don’t smell” supremacists … well, they can all go do their mothers.
We will never forget what this president and this party did for years to come. Not only in presidential elections but all elections
And look what happened to VOLDEMORT. HE’S GOING DOWN.
I don’t think we’re gonna have to worry about anymore elections to come…
What’s the point ?
@Jordan Clark Agreed 😏. Don’t vote anymore. There is no reason to. The elections are rigged, RIGGED I TELL YOU! #BOYCOTTTHEBALLOTBOX
Detroit, MI is Veryyy Offended 🇺🇸💯
Stay strong and stay beautiful, Detroit!
We need more strong intelligent women like her to stand up for what is right and to be heard across the nation.
Thank you
Fyesoh
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Intelligent? 🤣🤣 To you she is intelligent because your clueless 🤣🤣
Sacagawea is right
@N N sweet… your name just went to the top of the list for the re-education camps.
your kind of stupid can’t be fixed, but it CAN be removed.
This is why you should be defiant and even vote more.
Why did you copy someone else’s comment?
This is why you should be defiant and even vote more.
@David Hale did you check out real blacks’ bona fides? I always do. So arguing with someone like him isn’t really amazing.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/11/trump-election-lawsuits-target-black-latino-voters.html
@REAL BLACKS KNOW THE TRUTH in 2019 you guys tried to toss out 500,000 voters from the rolls in GA and WI….how that go for you?
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/11/trump-election-lawsuits-target-black-latino-voters.html
How do you vote more? By voter fraud?
@XX XX **WELL…WE KNOW HOW YOU VOTE…YOU USE “”XX”” AND VOTE TWICE, NO?** https://youtu.be/Q_get06-tgo
And he says that he has done more for black people that any other President. well yes he has, he has tried to steel your right to vote, sent in DHS in to the cities to arrest you, told the world that there are good people in white supremacy group? no end to the good he is doing for race relations!!!! In the UK he could be prosecuted for this.
The least racist guy in the room
Super Predators in a jungle BRING BACK BUSING antifa.com
And that is the TRUTH! Sherrilyn Ifill is speaking about what has gone on historically and what the Republicans are trying to do right now.
Jyesoh
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It was always happening it never stopped.. it’s just being EXPOSED in the TRUMP Presidency just like everything else… THEY ARE GOING DOWN.
Our, “norms,” and, “guardrails,” failed us . . . Badly. Time to get them codified into LAW! With swift penalties for politicians and civil servants of ANY rank! We simply cannot do this every two years? If no one is considered, “legitimate,” in midterms or national elections, we will become an ungovernable, weak, vulnerable banana republic, ripe for invasion by stealth! New LAWS please?
Whenever stupid people hold power in their hands, they try to suppress everyone else, even if these people who suppress them have more intelligence in their heads than they themselves. That must finally stop and there must never be a situation that divides our country in such a way!
Haha bizarre
Completely right, Ms. Ifill. The president doesn’t claim voter fraud in Columbus, OH, Lincoln, NE, Phoenix, AZ, Anchorage, AK, both Kansas Citys, or Indianapolis, just a few of the many cities run by Democratic mayors. Wonder why not? What do all the states where those cities are located have in common? They all gave their electoral votes to Donald Trump. It has nothing to do with Democratic control. It has to do with the fact that a large number of our African American citizens tipped those states to Joe Biden, just as the large number of European American citizens tipped Florida or Texas or North Carolina to Donald Trump. The difference is that for Trump, it is OK for white people to tip states to him, but not for black people to tip a state to his opponent. Well, that’s typical Trump.
Um maybe Ohio. Not Columbus Ohio.
About time.Its finally time to strike back and not be a victim
Black voters matter *We Did It*
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris Won we helped with that you mad for nah 🤦🏾♀️😂😂😂😂😂😂
YES, WE DID! Never again believe that OUR votes don’t matter. If OUR votes didn’t matter, they wouldn’t work so hard to suppress them! 2022 is around the corner, and we still have work to do!
@Jordan Clark doesn’t matter 😌
Joementia and Kameltoe are not the leaders that either you think they are or that the msm portrays them to be.
Be careful what you wish for.
I feel sorry for America.
@purse delighted why are all Demokkkrats racists and pathetic?
Those millions of extra votes trump got, we’re probably illegal ballots.
I personally think that’s why he can’t believe that he lost. He cheated and STILL lost lol
Ok fitz u putz, try other way around commie , oh but no evidence
@Joseph Monahan no evidence? Vote twice my little suckers. And they did! Still the loser lost.
@JTuaim no dickhead u mean they counted biden voted 3 times
“Dog whistle”? No, it’s a friggin siren blaring.