>>OK keep thinking that. I would direct you to the civil
>rights
>>movement that fought for voting. The problem as I see it is
>>that the efforts of the civil rights generation has been
>>squandered and their trials and tribulations are now
>>trivialized and the things you're pointing to are a DIRECT
>>RESULT of that trivialization.<
>
>So you're saying that the problem is people trivialized the
>civil rights movement and THAT'S why the voting process does
>not work...but you totally ignore those things I listed? Which
>have been pointed out time and time again as reasons why there
>are so many irregularities in voting? But it's somehow black
>people's fault that these folks don't have it within them to
>NOT oppress people. And it's been that way since we've been
>here. Okay
>

I didn't ignore the problems nor did I place the blame on black people, sorry if I wasn't clear. I just think the disinterest in civics makes what you mentioned more possible. But prime evil is prime evil and the bad voting machines and other forms of voter suppression are not our fault and those who push them are doing evil things but I DO think we've got more power at the ballot box than we use.





>
> A very current example is
>>Marijuana legalization. 10 years ago, unheard of. While I
>was
>>in school NORML was every where organizing doing the hard
>work
>>necessary and today MJ is going mainstream, mostly due to
>the
>>ballot box. Never once did I hear a pro-legalize MJ person
>say
>>voting doesn't matter.
>
>Irrelevant. Discussing marijuana legalization in a post about
>police brutality/ murder is not something I'm about to waste
>my time doing.
>

You're choice but my point remains, change can happen at the ballot box and it DOES I've just used an example. No need to get heated fam, we're discussing solutions and you're dismissal of others' thoughts, even those who are on the same side, is part of the problem IMHO. But keep doing you.