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A Washington and Lee University law school professor is calling for âvote reparationsâ for African-American people by giving them twice the voting power than other voters. Vote reparations would empower us to replace oppressive institutions with life-affirming structures of economic, social, and political equality, Brandon Hasbrouck, an assistant professor at the Washington and Lee University School of Law, Nation. And if our elected representatives did not prioritize this transformational work, we could vote them out.
Hasbrouck, who teaches classes on critical race theory and race relations law at Washington and Lee, says that the âcore problemâ of the American election system is the Electoral College.
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He does state that black people (in Atlanta, Milwaukee, Detroit, and Philadelphia) won Biden the Electoral College; yet, he asserts, despite “overwhelming Black support 94 percent of Detroit voted for Biden,” Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania were still “worryingly close.”
One enemy to the black American’s ballot-casting says Brandon is the Electoral College:
One core problem is the Electoral College. Wyoming, which has just 580,000 residents and is 93 percent white, gets three electors because of its two senators and one representative in the House. By comparison, Georgia’s Fifth Congressional District which includes Atlanta, has 710,000 residents, and is 58 percent Black has no dedicated electors or senators and can only occasionally overcome the mostly white and conservative votes from elsewhere in the state.
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A law school professor called for “vote reparations” for black people to make elections fairer by giving them twice the voting power of other citizens. Vote reparations would empower us to replace oppressive institutions with life-affirming structures of economic, social, and political equality, Brandon Hasbrouck, an assistant professor at the Washington and Lee University School of Law, Nation last week. And if our elected representatives did not prioritize this transformational work, we could vote them out.
Hasbrouck, who
teaches race relations law and a class on critical race theory, argued that the “core problem” of the United States’s election system is the Electoral College. The professor pointed out that Wyoming and its 580,000 residents are 93% white, but the state gets “three electors because of its two senators and one representat
Votes of black Americans ‘should count TWICE’ because they are ‘devalued compared to white people’, professor says
20 Dec 2020, 20:37
VOTES of black Americans should be counted twice because they are devalued compared to white people, according to a professor.
Brandon Hasbrouck - an assistant professor at Washington and Lee University School of Law - proposed his idea in The Nation s column The Argument.
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According to Brandon Hasbrouck, black voters in America are worth less than white voters Credit: AP:Associated Press
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Hasbrouck, pictured, slammed the Electoral College as a core problem in the US voting systemCredit: W & L Law Faculty
Hasbrouck s piece, which was published on Thursday, insists that black voters in this country are worth less than white voters and slammed the Electoral College as a core problem in the United States voting system.