Black People Know We are Voting For Our Climate Lives

Black People Know We are Voting For Our Climate Lives

There's a good reason Black folks don't say "Candyman" five times in a row and it just happens to be the exact same reason we are more likely to vote for Joe Biden's climate policy than any other demographic in America today. There's no need for us to tempt fate or question, "What if?" when we exist in the lived experience of environmental injustice, continue to rebuild despite increasing violent weather patterns, and systemic barriers to capital, all while healing from racial trauma at the same time.

In other words, Black people do not give potentially life-threatening horror the benefit of the doubt—we know better than that. Since the last election, we've watched our nation's capital fall under a domestic attack wholly based on a voting myth. While images of the old confederacy loomed across screens around the world, many Black Americans instinctively knew that a clear and present danger of suppressing and devaluing the process of voting still existed in this country. We vote for policies, including climate and environment, that are most likely to keep us safe from both the things we can see and the things we cannot. It is simply an illusion to insinuate otherwise.

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