America Investigates January 6

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America is revisiting the 6 January 2021 invasion of the U.S. Capitol, when Trump’s supporters attempted to stop Joe Biden from being confirmed, as the winner of the 2020 presidential election.

When did it all began? The 19th of July, 2016 can be regarded as one of voter suppression’s birthdays.

Voter suppression is nothing new in the South of the U.S.A. African Americans have lived with it since the formal emancipation of slaves in 1861. Formal was one thing, letting them go was another. Plantation owners were not prepared to part with the two scoops of free labor, children and parents.

The 19th of July 2016 is one of the historic dates for voter suppression laws because of Donald Trump, the man the Republican Party chose  to run for president.

Improbable. Ludicrous. Never. Are you kidding, are some of the things said about him. Some Americans threatened to move to Canada should he be elected. He could never be the President of the United States of America.

He did and liked it. Time and tide waits for no man, so his term ended in 2020. America went to the polls to elect a new tenant for the White House. He lost the election. Joe Biden, a Democrat is the current U.S. President.

The 19th of July 2016 is the birthday of modern day voter suppression laws because the Republican Party chose a man who mistook a temporary position as permanent, as a monarchy, something he would sit on till death do him part.

Donald Trump doesn’t believe in the vote. He became president because of the Electoral College, but he challenged it when he lost to Biden. Because he doesn’t believe in America, it was easy for him to sow seeds that resulted in the current avalanche of voter suppression laws in states controlled by his party.

If the Party hadn’t chosen a man called Trump to run for president  on the 19th of July 2016, Georgia, Arizona, Arkansas, Iowa and Utah would not have made the stolen election lie, law.

By: Nonqaba waka Msimang. 

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