even though they let that guy from Connecticut claim to be one of us.

...of truly overt racism in the voting process -- not "we don't have enough machines" or "sorry your lines were so long," but "we don't want to let you vote because you're black."

Here's the thing:  if the Prairie View students voted en masse, they could cause a sea change in Waller County politics.  The County has a voting-age , population of 24,277, of whom 7,556, or 31%, are "native" African-American.  Prairie View A&M has a student population of about 8,500, basically all of whom are black and of voting age.  That raises the black pop to about 16,056 and the total pop to about 32,500.  So the percentage African-American voting-age population goes up to about 50%.

Essentially, the bubbocracy gets voted out of power.  They're trying to hang on at all costs, and they don't seem to care all that much about the negative publicity they engender.  It's a cesspool.  The state knows it, and the feds know it.

And the preliminary work you have done there makes up for your absence today by far!  

I am so damn proud.  Of PVAMU, of you, of True Blue 10, and everybody who marched out there today.

I love the photos.  I wish I could have been there, too.