The Faith Hour with Harriet Cammock

With Biden’s narrow win in Michigan, many are looking to Wayne County, the Blackest county in America, for delivering the Midwestern state to the Democrats. Residents of Macomb County, a county outside of Detroit that is the third largest county in Michigan, found themselves in shock as Wayne County turned the entire state from Red to Blue.

In today’s final showdown between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, our country decides history- and chooses whether Black, Brown, poor, and immigrant people will live and have access to healthcare, a living wage, and affordable housing

With videos circulating all over social media of MAGA supporters using their cars to run potential Democratic voters off the road-and police nowhere to be found-research is showing that in 6 of the previous 7 elections, Democrats have won the popular vote. So how have Republicans managed to maintain their grip on political power? The answer is alarmingly simple: Voter Suppression. Concerted public policy geared towards restricting access to the polls during each and every election. How can Democrats and Democratic electors work to abolish the electoral college, thereby eradicating voter suppression?

We have been in the grip of a nightmare called a pandemic for several months. As 2020 draws to a close, we are seeing lockdowns, first experienced when the pandemic began in March and now at the end of the year, here we go again. America is on the brink of change. After a Summer of strife and marches and protests against racial i justice, the change will not just take place with the elections, but the ensuing months afterwards.

Jerry Falwell, Jr has sued liberty University, alleging the evangelical school founded by his late pastor father damaged his reputation in a series of public statements that followed his resignation as president and chancellor in August amid a series of scandals. The lawsuit filed in Lynchburg Circuit Court on Wednesday includes claims of defamation, and breach of contract. It alleges that Liberty officials accepted what Falwell says are false claims about his involvement in an extramarital affair between his wife and a business partner of the couple’s and ‘moved quickly’ to destroy his reputation.

With the recent revelation that Ice Cube-rapper,actor,and African-American icon is ‘working with’ Jared Kushner on a ‘Platinum Plan’ to supposedly enrich the Black community, many are calling into question the legitimacy of Ice Cube’s intentions. As a former rapper whose songs often decried White politics, now Ice Cube finds himself allying with- and legitimizing- the ‘rugged individualism’ narrative parroted by the wealthy white elite.

With Amy Coney Barrett now a United States Supreme Court Justice, women across the country are in jeopardy of losing access to safe, legal abortions. Conservatives are of the mistaken belief that banning abortions mean that abortion procedures will cease everywhere. What folks fail to understand is that legalized abortion means that abortion procedures are safe, and that they follow prescribed medical guidelines to keep those who undertake the procedures safe. Amy Barrett and the majority Conservative Supreme Court are now threatening to rip those safeguards away.

Being white in America means being the least qualified person in the room but having the most prestigious-and most senior position. Positions that Blacks and people of color have to be routinely over- qualified and supremely educated for. Ms. Barrett has only two years experience in private practice, has never tried a case nor argued an appeal, and only became a judge for the first time in 2017. A Black woman or a woman of color in Ma. Barrett’s position would have to have twice the qualifications just to secure a position of senior partner at large law firm. Aside from the implications of what a majority Conservative Supreme Court means for working class and Black people in America, what else does Ms. Barrett’s astrominical rise to the most powerful court on the planet mean for advancing the goals and agenda of white supremacy.

Today, people are self-governed. That means we elect or choose our leaders. In Biblical times, God appointed leaders by speaking through Prophets and directing them to whom to appoint. God doesn’t speak through prophets today to dictate the choice of leaders. People choose their leaders. Is it a right to choose our leaders? Who declared conservativeness as a human value that is better than any other? And that that said value is ordained and sanctioned by God? The values of faith, family, love of country and worship of God are human values, not confined to conservatism. Using conservativeness to suppress people’s rights to abortion, and choosing a partner is the suppression of human rights. Just like using conservativeness to defend voter suppression is the suppression of people’s rights to choose a leader. God has nothing to do with that.

It’s twelve days to the November 2020 elections and our nerves are fraught with so many plays on how the election could turn out. What if Trump is re-elected? What if Biden wins? What will it mean for Black Americans and racial violence if white supremacy gains ground in the white house. So many ways that this could play out it’s nerve-wracking but what about our own lives and our what if scenarios? Are we playing to win?