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Greetings, Democrats & friends!
This email is about a few things.
- Responding to the xenophobic and frankly lazy AI-generated lies the opposition seems to have crafted into a mailer against our good senator;
- in the works, our own pro-candidate mailers;
- FYI: we have a town hall on education on Thursday, September 10th, organized by the senator's election campaign and LaHoma Romocki for CC6; come out to Orange Street at 6:30PM that night, talk about issues that matter to you, and meet our candidates!
Dishonesty, & what I understand of what it is to be Brown or Black or Muslim in politics in a post-9/11 world
Friends, this week a quite terrible mailer from the ambiguously named North Carolina Senate Majority Fund (read: GOP PAC) landed on the doorsteps of some local voters. It contained the usual lazy lies MAGA-conservatives (and really xenophobes of all types) have been slinging at Brown and Black politicians and those with non-Anglo names for decades—for centuries—this time directed at our senator, Haseeb Fatmi.
"Too extreme," they say, "Too dangerous."
Friends, these losers couldn't be more wrong, though I suspect they and the local conservative yahoos shall try.
The truth is, conservatives have got nothing on our excellent candidate, so they run to repeat these tired lies. They make up connections that don't exist because they have nothing to offer. It is Islamophobic. It is xenophobic—afraid of the other.
Let us not forget the many hellish lies conservatives cooked up about one Barack Hussein Obama; the tools may have changed, but the tactic is the same.
In so doing, they tie themselves to the legacy of McCarthyism that ginned up a Red Scare, to those who disappeared Muslim Americans like the poet Solmaz Sharif's uncle in the wake of 9/11, to Hoover's FBI trotting out lies about Black Panthers for exercising their 2nd Amendment and feeding kids free lunch—in doing so, they show themselves the kind of actors more likely to drug a young man to kill him in his bed than to keep children from going hungry. And in service of what?! (Of a just state? It is only as just as the men and women who serve in it.)
It is not enough to hope that the days of these kinds of conservatives holding the power of the state are numbered. Let us work towards that, every day between now and November, by doing the direct voter contact needed to re-elect Sen. Fatmi and to elect Democrats up and down the ballot.
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