Posts From Peter Grear
The Third Reconstruction: Political Accountability
Many of you are quite familiar with “disparity studies” – creating more and better jobs and economic opportunities for black citizens and communities is essential for a successful reconstruction.
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Voter Suppression Tactics: Is it Partisan?
The right to vote is essential to the existence of the United States as a free and open society and shouldn’t be viewed in a partisan prism. The right to vote should be an issue of citizenship, not partisanship. Unfortunately, voter suppression appears to be a partisan pursuit.
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lence in the ranks of modern black Republicans who stand mute as their party of choice relentlessly attacks the civil right that is most responsibile for the rights and privileges of democracy, the right to vote.
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Silence of Modern Day Black Republicans – Aiding and Abetting Voter Suppression
There is a deafening silence in the ranks of modern black Republicans who stand mute as their party of choice relentlessly attacks the civil right that is most responsibile for the rights and privileges of democracy, the right to vote.
Read MoreOur Challenge Ahead: Creating Black Wealth – The Third Reconstruction
Educate, organize and mobilize: The date of our Voter Empowerment Summit is still tentative so I’ll not elaborate on it beyond what has been said. However, our challenge going forward hasn’t changed and I’ll continue to address it and outline action
Read MoreThe Voter Empowerment Summit: Black America’s Third Reconstruction
As reported earlier, the Voter Empowerment Summit (The Summit) being convened by NC House Democratic Leader, Larry Hall and the NC Alliance of Black Elected Officials Chairman, Richard Hooker had to be postponed because of insurmountable conflicts. It has been
Read MoreThird Reconstruction vs. New Confederacy
Educate, organize and mobilize: Over the past months I’ve written about the necessity of Black voters requiring patronage in return for electing politicians to office, political accountability and the Voter Empowerment Summit. This week I’ll highlight ongoing discussions and I’ll address
Read MoreThe Voter Empowerment Summit
Educate, organize and mobilize: Last week we announced the upcoming Voter Empowerment Summit scheduled for January 10, 2015 at Martin Street Baptist Church, 1001 E. Martin St. Raleigh, NC 27601. On Monday Night past, a group of us involved in the
Read MoreThe Pawns of Politics Where Is My Patronage?
Educate, organize and mobilize: For more than a year leading up to the recently completed General Elections, I’ve written about Voter Suppression, gerrymandering, the Black vote and voters. The good news from the General Election, if there is any, is that
Read MoreWhere’s My Patronage? Black Voters Search for Benefits
Educate, organize and mobilize: Since the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960’s many Blacks have been loyal and consistent voters, albeit at levels that need to increase. During our most recent elections and other elections going back to the sixties, many
Read MoreVoter Suppression Won Again: We Lost a Battle, Not the War
Educate, organize and mobilize: Although the results of Tuesday’s General Election are very disappointing, they have given us a real measurement of our task ahead. I don’t have any empirical data to prove the exact results of our mobilization to get-out-the-vote
Read MoreDefeat Voter Suppression: Vote Democratic Vote! Vote! Vote
Necessarily, this is my last column before the November 4th General Election. The outcome of this election and voter suppression is in your hands. Please continue your outreach by emailing your contacts and posting to your Facebook friends asking and
Read MoreDefeat Voter Suppression: D-Day is Here Email your contacts. Facebook your friends.
Educate, organize and mobilize — Again, if you’re not already registered you cannot vote in this year’s General Election. If you follow the news, you already know that the National and North Carolina Republican Parties are engaged in the most
Read MoreVoter Suppression: Polls Don’t Vote Vote Early and Volunteer. Volunteer. Volunteer.
Recent news reports addressing the November 4th North Carolina, General Election are important but should not be viewed in any way that would cause Black voters to do anything but promote a massive voter turnout. On October 1, the 4th
Read MoreVoter Suppression: Creating Black Wealth – Vote Your Economics! Yes, We can!
Here I go again. Since November 2013, I’ve been writing commentaries designed to spark enough interest in Black Voters to cause them to vote in November 2014. So far I’ve failed. This week I’m going to introduce another rationale for
Read MoreWinning a Dead Heat: Black Elected Officials Mobilize, Mobilize and Mobilize
By most polls the North Carolina race for the United States Senate is a dead heat. That being the case, victory in November will go to the political party that executes the best voter mobilization plan. Since August 2013, I’ve
Read MoreVoter Suppression: An Existential Threat to Democracy
Educate, Organize and Mobilize: Since November of 2013 I’ve been writing about voter suppression and addressing the subject from many different angles. We’re now in the mobilization phase of defeating voter suppression and I’ve been encouraged to outline an effective, understandable
Read MoreVoter Suppression: The Lines Are Drawn and The Fight Is On
Educate, Organize and Mobilize: Last week we shifted our focus to voter mobilization for November 2014. This week, as we look back we’ll also take a look at the current state of affairs in the fight to protect the voting rights
Read MoreVoter Suppression: It’s Mobilization Time
Educate, Organize and Mobilize: Since November of 2013 I’ve been writing about voter suppression and an appropriate response that needs to be made by those threatened by wide-spread, aggressive voter suppression. I’ve spent a lot of time trying to create an
Read MoreVoter Suppression: The Mississippi Lesson
Educate, Organize and Mobilize: It's fifty years since the passage of the Civil Rights of 1964 (The Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965) and this is turning out to be quite a political season. There are many unforeseeable and unpredictable
Read MoreVoter Suppression: NC Black Republican Advisory Board
Educate, Organize and Mobilize: I confess that I’m amazed. The Republican National Committee and the Republican Party of North Carolina announced last week that they have launched the North Carolina Black Advisory Board (BRAB) to strengthen the party’s ties with diverse
Read MoreVoter Suppression: Defeating it requires two massive efforts
Educate, Organize and Mobilize: Last week I analyzed an article written by Dan Russo of the Roanoke Times. My point of interest in his article was his conclusion that, in order for democrats to win in November they would have to
Read MoreVoter Suppression: Taxation Without Representation
Educate, Organize and Mobilize: In commentaries that I wrote several months ago I likened efforts to defeat voter suppression to battling a hydra and noted that it was impossible to defeat voter suppression if you don’t know it when you see
Read MoreVoter Suppression: What’s going on!
Educate, Organize and Mobilize: From time to time it helps to survey the landscape and make an assessment of your project in order to help keep it on track or to correct your course. With the Campaign to Defeat Voter Suppression
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Why vote? ALEC and the Doctrine of Exclusion
Educate, Organize and Mobilize: Frequently, in going forward it is imperative to examine your history. In 1638 the Maryland Colony issued a public edict encouraging the separation of the races that became the public policy of America. The edict became known
Read MoreGerrymandering: This Civil Rights War is Happening Now
Educate, Organize and Mobilize: Last week Jaymes Powell Jr. wrote for the African American Caucus of the North Carolina Democratic Party (AAC-NCDP) a very uplifting and accurate account of how Black candidates fared in the recent primaries. I spoke with him
Read MoreEducate, Organize and Mobilize: The War On Voters
This week the Campaign to Defeat Voter Suppression will reach an audience critical to its success. The 2014 Black Summit of the Alliance of North Carolina Black Elected Officials will host a panel presentation by leaders representing organizations that are
Read MoreThe War on Voters
Educate, Organize and Mobilize By Peter Grear This week the Campaign to Defeat Voter Suppression will reach an audience critical to its success. The 2014 Black Summit of the Alliance of North Carolina Black Elected Officials will host a
Read MoreNorth Carolina Voters Face Unnecessary Obstacles to the Polls
National Commission on Voting Rights Hears from Voters at North Carolina Public Hearing — WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Friday, March 28, 2014 at a National Commission on Voting Rights (NCVR) public hearing, organized by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (Lawyers’
Read MoreHarry Reid Got It Right: Koch Brothers Are Un-American
Recently, Kathleen Parker, a widely read, conservative columnist challenged Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid’s characterization of the Koch Brothers as un-American and suggested that Reid owed the Koch Brothers and the American people an apology. She attributes such characterization as
Read MoreVoter Outreach
Educate, Organize and Mobilize: Each week over the past several months I’ve written about various aspects of voter suppression with the purpose of explaining its concepts, strategies and objectives to move voters to action against voter suppression. I’ve addressed various individuals
Read MoreMirror, Mirror On the Wall
Educate, Organize and Mobilize: I’m a supporter of President Obama and write this as my first response to an attack on him by someone I presume to be a Republican, right winger suffering from “Obama Derangement Syndrome.” On March 22, 2014
Read MoreLow Information Voters: ALEC
Educate, Organize and Mobilize: Over the past several months I’ve been writing about various aspects of voter suppression with the purpose of explaining its concepts, strategies and objectives to move voters to action against voter suppression. Last week we published a
Read MoreStill Fighting for Right to Vote
After 246 years of slavery, Americans fought a brutal Civil War — the bloodiest in our history — to end slavery and preserve the union. Three amendments were added to the Constitution: the 13th abolished slavery; the 14th guaranteed equal
Read MoreThe League of Women Voters Responds to Voter Suppression: Educate, Organize and Mobilize
With current references to the modern voter suppression and the disproportionate impact of Voter ID laws on women, the League of Women Voters are continuing their historic fight to ensure the voting rights of all people. Rooted in the movement
Read MoreModern Voter Suppression Is an Attack on Blacks and American Democracy
Since September, Patricia Ferguson and I have participated in town hall meetings across the state, sponsored by the NC Legislative Black Caucus and the NC Democratic Caucus. Our topic is and has been the defeat of voter suppression. In the
Read MoreThe Plot to Dilute the Black Vote
After decades of trying to ease voting restrictions that suppress voter turnout in the U.S., already among the lowest among industrialized nations, Republican-led state legislators and GOP governors have quickly implemented or proposed a series of changes aimed at reducing
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The Third Reconstruction: Finishing the Job
Educate, organize and mobilize: (Reprint of Dec. 2014 article) GreaterDiversity.com provides ongoing commentaries and news to get the masses of people to take a critical look at where we are politically and economically in North Carolina, why we are where
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