Intro: Fannie Lou Hamer's Credentials Committee Testimony (1964) for the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party which she co-founded.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRCUUzpfV7k
Alt episode titles: Vote and/or Die
The Revolution Will Not Be TikTok'd at the DNC
Voting in this country was created as a means of giving those least empowered the veneer of control over a democratic system that was designed to be autocratic really and only with the interests of a small few white people in mind. And by those—I mean those constitutionally considered human.
The constitution and declaration of independence could have been written w the blood of Black indigenous and Indigenous/First Nations so much of it was spilled to birth the current system whose efficacy and legitimacy we all find ourselves in constant debate about online and elsewhere.
So yes ima think voting is the only means to achieve change or the most powerful change in a system that tells us routinely how to go about change and how not to go about change so that nothing will ever change, because if I stopped believing that, I’d have to actually do something more than what I’m told, I’d have to imagine, I’d have to create, I’d have to divest from whiteness, I might not make a million dollars, I might make a million enemies, I might have to go out after I vote and hit the streets and never leave, I might have to care about people the system has deemed undesirable and disposal
I mean that’s a tall order for the average person in a white supremacist capitalist society that works me til I’m broken and breaks me til I’m dead
I’ll take the fucking sticker instead!!
Is that how the song goes?
Join us for a special election episode exploring:
Electoral College Origins and Inexplicable Explanations for Its Continued Use 200 plus years later
Kamala Harris criticism - unprincipled and legitimate, misinformation and who it serves surprisingly, a critique of Harris is an endorsement of trump? The anxiety and fear around critiques of Kamala being co-opted and bastardized by white supremacists
People online defending electoral politics by positing that there are no revolutions happening despite the fact that current revolutions happening everywhere...maybe even next door.
- [ ] Mayamar
- [ ] Kenya
- [ ] Venezuela
- [ ] Cop City
- [ ] Land back campaigns
- [ ] Palestine
Outro: el Hajj Malik el Shabazz
"Democracy is Hypocrisy Sticker"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNfAFfu6VD0
Recommended Reading and Resources Forthcoming at www.patreon.com/ihartericka