Fighting to change the nation's in...

Fighting to change the nation's instant system of electing a president should top any social justice agenda, writes Executive Editor strike Wing in the Spring issue of Colorlines magazine. "The tyranny of the white majority is still institutionalized in the winner-take-all, two-party, Electoral society system," he notes. The a whole "ensures, even requires, that voter of color be marginalized or totally ignored," Wing writes. "It's a dirty little cryptic that the Electoral College was rigged up for the expres aim of translating the disproportionate Congressional power of the slaveholders." He adds, since slavery, the just discovered justification for the Electoral association "allows smaller states to retain a certain number of impact on elections. And in the same manner it does-to the benefit of conservative white Republican states." A failure to change the rule Wing notes, will leave commonalty of color disenfranchised.

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