#MitchPlease: Black Folks Don’t Need to Defend Our Americanness

Whitney Alese
3 min readJan 24, 2022

“…African American voters are voting in just as high a percentage as Americans.” That is what was said by Mitch McConnell before he and senate republicans filibustered both the Right to Vote and the John Lewis Voting rights act.

McConnell made this remark during a news conference, before two Democrat senators, Joe Manchin and Krysten Sinema, refused to…

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Whitney Alese

Whitney Alese is an award winning writer & creator featured in WIRED Magazine, I-D Magazine, NBC, & Chalkboard Magazine.