Tag: Voter Suppression

Desus and Mero help ‘More Than A Vote’ combat misinformation in a new ad

The Bronx comedy duo narrated a new video from More Than A Vote and Win Black about how to combat misinformation when it comes your way.

Early voting is already taking place across the nation but with the election cycle heading into the home stretch before the Nov. 3 general election deadline, LeBron James’ nonprofit organization ‘More Than A Vote’ is kicking things into overdrive with their messaging, making sure everyone gets their vote out before Nov. 3. And one of the biggest things they are looking to combat in these final weeks head into the election is the issue of disinformation online.

Burner accounts, fake stories, and other things have inevitably become a part of elections in the social media age. So, More Than A Vote called in the Bronx comedy duo, Desus, and Mero aka The Bodega Boys, to narrate a new ad campaign geared towards helping combat misinformation and how to discuss it with those closest to you. The new More Than A Vote campaign was done in conjunction with Win Black, which is a movement created to counter digital misinformation.

In the coming weeks, Win Black will help More Than A Vote find what they believe are the most dangerous stories of misinformation online in an attempt to flag them before the election.

“We’re less than two weeks out from the end of this election cycle but decades into the fight against the suppression of the Black vote,” said Andre Banks and Ashley Bryant, co-founders of Win Black. “Harmful disinformation is being weaponized to block the voices and votes of Black Americans — but we have the power to stop it. Through this partnership, Under Review will urgently flood the zone with the facts we need to counter the targeted attacks coming from bad actors at home and abroad.”

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Desus and Mero help ‘More Than A Vote’ combat misinformation in a new ad

The Bronx comedy duo narrated a new video from More Than A Vote and Win Black about how to combat misinformation when it comes your way.

Early voting is already taking place across the nation but with the election cycle heading into the home stretch before the Nov. 3 general election deadline, LeBron James’ nonprofit organization ‘More Than A Vote’ is kicking things into overdrive with their messaging, making sure everyone gets their vote out before Nov. 3. And one of the biggest things they are looking to combat in these final weeks head into the election is the issue of disinformation online.

Burner accounts, fake stories, and other things have inevitably become a part of elections in the social media age. So, More Than A Vote called in the Bronx comedy duo, Desus, and Mero aka The Bodega Boys, to narrate a new ad campaign geared towards helping combat misinformation and how to discuss it with those closest to you. The new More Than A Vote campaign was done in conjunction with Win Black, which is a movement created to counter digital misinformation.

In the coming weeks, Win Black will help More Than A Vote find what they believe are the most dangerous stories of misinformation online in an attempt to flag them before the election.

“We’re less than two weeks out from the end of this election cycle but decades into the fight against the suppression of the Black vote,” said Andre Banks and Ashley Bryant, co-founders of Win Black. “Harmful disinformation is being weaponized to block the voices and votes of Black Americans — but we have the power to stop it. Through this partnership, Under Review will urgently flood the zone with the facts we need to counter the targeted attacks coming from bad actors at home and abroad.”

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More Than A Vote makes call to action to fans before playoffs to fight Black voter suppression

The More Than A Vote non-profit started by LeBron James took time to discuss Black voter suppression.

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Monday is a glorious day for sports fans and particularly, NBA fans, as the league starts the first round of the NBA playoffs later this afternoon down in the Disney World bubble. But with a day that sports fans have been waiting for for a long time, also comes attention. And with that in mind, LeBron’s ‘More Than A Vote’ nonprofit, created to fight suppression of Black voters in the United States ahead of the 2020 general election, wrote a call to action for their fans to help beware of the voter suppression that has long limited the potential impact of Black voters on ESPN’s The Undefeated.

The most important thing you all need to know is Black voters matter more than ever. The biggest cities in the most critical states in this election have incredible, vibrant Black communities. Detroit, Philadelphia, Charlotte, Miami, Milwaukee, Atlanta. Not surprisingly, because these Black voters have so much influence, they will be more aggressively targeted by forces of suppression. Many in power who oppose our fight for change believe it is easier to cancel one of our votes than to find a new vote of their own. You need to know this and understand how it works.

One critical and immediate threat to our vote is COVID. Black communities are overwhelmingly more vulnerable than white communities. In counties where Black people are the majority, death rates are 3.5 times higher than the national average. Our voting locations must offer safe, socially distanced voting. If we don’t address this now, no joke, many Black people will be forced to put their health at risk just to cast a ballot.

“More Than A Vote” has worked on crucial initiatives to get out the vote, including getting teams in both the NBA and MLB to use their sports stadiums as polling places across the country.

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LeBron James explains why voting alone isn’t a fix to structural racism

LeBron does it again.

LeBron James has never shied away from using his voice and his platform to shine a light on the ills of systemic racism.

These issues are a complex web and will require a sustained effort that digs away at institutional injustice to dismantle.  Often times, the argument presented for fighting back against social ills is that people simply go out and vote.

It’s simplistic, reductive advice, and LeBron James, for one, doesn’t have any patience for it. In a short tweet, James pointed out how meaningless the go out and vote advice is. Early Tuesday, James quote-tweeted political reporter Laura Barrón-López, who wrote that it took Black Lives Matter co-founder LaTosha Brown three hours to vote in her predominately black neighborhood in Georgia.

James drilled down into the heart of why that’s a problem.

“Everyone talking about “how do we fix this?”  They say “go out and vote?”  What about asking if how we vote is also structurally racist?” he wrote

People tend to use voting as the first answer in fixing these systematic issues the U.S. faces, but that doesn’t check out. This James tweet perfectly shows why.

Voter suppression is a real thing. Black people, other people of color and poor people have a much harder time going out to vote than their white, affluent counterparts. If the country is going to see some meaningful change, dealing with voter suppression and gerrymandering are one of the many issues that need to be fixed. James is highlighting this.

Good on LeBron for recognizing this and lending his voice to it. One thing we can all agree on, is that voting shouldn’t be this hard.