Voting And The Battle For White Cultural Dominance

October 24th, 2012 by Guest Contributor

It is in this context that the current voter suppression efforts we are seeing around the country should be understood. Overcoming these efforts in this election cycle is only one among many battles. Unless we see that battle as connected to the battles for immigration rights, religious freedom, racial equity and gender equity, reproductive and sexual freedom, and the battle to curtail the ambitions driving the expansion of American empire, we are missing the dynamics of the larger war and may soon find much more than voting rights among its casualties.

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  • http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com Anonymous

    Fortune cookies are Japanese, not American. There are Japanese drawings of them being made from about 30 years before they ever showed up in the US.

  • http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com Anonymous

    Fortune cookies are Japanese, not American. There are Japanese drawings of them being made from about 30 years before they ever showed up in the US.

  • Crystal O

    I think you completely missed the point of this post. The author is talking about how voter suppression is used to maintain white power and dominance. A lot of fear around America “losing it’s way” and “changing” is rooted in a racist fear of the country no longer being predominantly white and white dominated. Hence why the media panics when they realize most Millenial’s are POC or that the country will be majority POC within most of our lifetimes. The author is simply using food as an example of how identity is wrapped up particular artifacts and shifting from that to how American identity is wrapped up in race.