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On Popeye's, Distractions, and Miscellaneous Foolishness

Thought Experiment: WHAT IF it were as easy to vote as it is (comparatively) to get a chicken sammich?
  • I don't need a voter ID to get a chicken sammich.
  • I can get a sammich seven days a week... until 10 PM. (I mean THEORETICALLY... if they weren't always selling out... but you know what I mean... MOVING ON...)
  • I don't have to wait at the DMV to register for my sammich.
  • I don't have to travel hours out of my way to fill out sammich paperwork because the state legislators closed 80% of the Popeye's near Black folks.
  • The Secretary of State isn't shutting down my Popeyes...
  • Or stealing the power cords for the toasters.
  • I have to vote once or twice a year...
  • Most folks try to eat every day.
  • I don't have any concerns that Russian agents are hacking my sammich.
  • As it happens, I vote in EVERY election. And post about voting in every election... and post about registering before the registration deadline.
  • I also post about supporting Black businesses.
  • And 45's antics.

But I ALSO like posting about lighter stuff. Not that the sammich is light. It's not. But it is delicious and perfectly fine in moderation.
Imma keep posting about sammiches, and movies, and tv shows, and Black businesses, and political antics. If that sounds good, follow me here and subscribe to my YouTube channel.
Also, FAMU Homecoming Lives will be LIT.

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