Black disenfranchisement: how will the left respond?

[Gary Ashwill]

on 12/11/00 5:29 PM, Chris Kromm at ckromm at mindspring.com wrote:
> If one follows the black newspapers, black listservs, and other
> African-American media outlets, it's clear that voter disenfranchisement has
> become a BIG issue (not just in Florida -- evidence is growing across the
> country). People are pissed and the masses are stirring to action. What do
> people think of this development? Will white progressives take it seriously,
> too? What's the best left perspective on this?

The Greens should take this up, since the Democrats at large haven't.  Gore,
desperate enough to endorse (backhandedly) those longshot potential PR
nightmares, the lawsuits in Martin and Seminole counties, hasn't said a damn
thing about black disenfranchisement.  If he won't in extremis, when will
he?  Doesn't this provide yet another reason for an independent left power
base?