Post by pavel on Jan 23, 2016 3:18:19 GMT -6
Black Students Facing Barriers to Voting in the County Where Sandra Bland Died
Waller County, Texas is in the news once more, and again it’s not good news for African American residents.
The county where Sandra Bland died after a violent arrest at a traffic stop is home to Prairie View A&M University (aka PVAMU), one of Texas’s historically black colleges. PVAMU students have been engaged in a decades-long fight to gain sufficient access to on-campus voting locations. This year, county officials are debating whether to provide an on-campus early voting location accessible to the approximately 2,000 students registered to vote there.
Bland herself was an alumna of the university, and was returning to Waller County to start her “dream job” on the campus.
The ongoing struggle by African Americans to gain sufficient access to voting locations is part of the same systemic bias that led to Sandra Bland’s wrongful arrest.
Read more: www.burntorangereport.com/diary/31700/black-students-facing-barriers-to-voting-in-the-county-where-sandra-bland-died
Waller County, Texas is in the news once more, and again it’s not good news for African American residents.
The county where Sandra Bland died after a violent arrest at a traffic stop is home to Prairie View A&M University (aka PVAMU), one of Texas’s historically black colleges. PVAMU students have been engaged in a decades-long fight to gain sufficient access to on-campus voting locations. This year, county officials are debating whether to provide an on-campus early voting location accessible to the approximately 2,000 students registered to vote there.
Bland herself was an alumna of the university, and was returning to Waller County to start her “dream job” on the campus.
The ongoing struggle by African Americans to gain sufficient access to voting locations is part of the same systemic bias that led to Sandra Bland’s wrongful arrest.
Read more: www.burntorangereport.com/diary/31700/black-students-facing-barriers-to-voting-in-the-county-where-sandra-bland-died