odinsblog:

This is an obvious threat to African American ex-prisoners, and the message is that the state will target and punish them with unreasonable prison sentences for voting, even while on probation.

”I don’t think I’ll ever vote again. That’s being honest. I’ll never vote again.” - Crystal Mason

This is the new Jim Crow. This is an example of how Texas disenfranchises Black voters and suppresses voter turnout.

This is why Black people are disproportionately arrested and injected into the criminal “justice” system for even the smallest infractions.

The threat of re-imprisonment is how you dissuade all Black former-prisoners from voting, “just in case.”

Can you even imagine how different the South would be - how different AMERICA would be, if so many states didn’t use the criminal justice system and prison as a means to suppress the Black vote?