YelloPain - My Vote Dont Count
Hip-hop recording artist YelloPain released a new four-minute video with a misleading title, “My Vote Dont Count," but whose content and presentation is brilliant. In “My Vote Dont Count,” the Dayton, Ohio native surmises who passes laws, why President Obama was not even more effective, and the importance of voting in every, single election.
YelloPain’s cousin, Desiree Tims, who is running for Congress in Ohio’s 10th District, inspired him from the sidelines to understanding the importance of voting. “Every time you stay home, someone is making a decision about you. Making decisions about the air you breath, the water you drink, the food your kids eat and how much money you bring home every week,” Tims says in front of a classroom in the hit video.
GOP Opens First-Ever Office
in Milwaukee
The Wisconsin Republican Party ventured into Democratic territory, opening its first-ever campaign office near Milwaukee’s central city. About 75 people attended the grand opening in the historic Bronzeville neighborhood. The city, including its African American community, has been a consistent Democratic stronghold. But in Wisconsin, Black turnout was down about 20% in 2016 versus 2012, according to a study by the Center for American Progress, a liberal advocacy group.
About the Milwaukee GOP office opening, Democratic Party of Wisconsin spokesperson Phil Shulman said in a statement that, “[Milwaukee voters] aren’t going to be fooled by the antics of Trump or Wisconsin Republicans after years of their bullying and disregard for this community.”
He added, “on top of building his candidacy around the false conspiracy theory that our first Black president wasn't a U.S. citizen and scapegoating people of color at every turn, Donald Trump has broken his promises to lower prescription drug and health care costs, raise wages, or pass meaningful common sense gun safety reform.”
An Array of Interest Groups Respond to Trump’s Latest Brown and Black People Ban
A broad coalition of interest groups held a phone meeting to voice their opposition to and explain their position on the current US president’s extended version of the Muslim Ban. “There are bad actors in Russia and bad actors in China; none of those places have been put on any ban. That is pure discrimination and racism,” declared Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX). Jackson’s district has one of the largest Nigerian-American communities. The 13-term congresssperson is also founder of the US Congressional Nigeria Caucus.
