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Oh yeah folks, can you believe it? She’s doing it again. Joining a gd crazy bike ride to recognize the existence and significance of Black lives - this time, as a lead!
This August, cyclists will bike 300miles in 5 days from New York City to Washington, D.C. to participate in the March For Voting Rights.
On August 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King led 250,000 people on a historic March On Washington. There, in front of the Lincoln Memorial, he delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech, calling on the nation to rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed. At the time, Black Americans were living under the tyranny of laws—called “Jim Crow” laws— that legalized racial discrimination.
Today, state legislatures are pushing America back to the Jim Crow era with laws that reinstate systemic discrimination at the ballot box. Since January, 48 states have introduced 389 bills that amount to shameful, outright voter suppression, and many have already become law. Banning ballot drop boxes and mail-in voting, reducing early voting days and hours, restricting who can get a mail-in ballot, prohibiting officials from promoting the use of of mail-in ballots even when voters qualify, even criminalizing the distribution of water to voters waiting in the long lines these laws create.
It’s time to March.
I'm raising funds to cover expenses for the ride (including registration, medical kits etc), support the Ride to D.C. non-profit to ensure every rider gets to our destination safely and support an incredible org that is working to put power into the hands of real change-makers, women.
Supermajority is focused on building a country that works for women—the majority of voters. They train women to take action, expand our community of engaged and informed women, and unlock women's political power in 2021 and beyond.
Any help towards these goals will be so deeply felt and loved. This year, I’ll be serving as a Pod Lead of 14 new riders as well as the pod medic. #nofallsthisyear
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Ride to D.C. was founded by a black African woman to recognize the significance of Black Lives in America, specifically in the world of cycling. Their aim is to raise awareness regarding the racial disparities within the bike community, fight for accessibility so that every person has access to a bike, safe roads, and bike infrastructure, and finally, to help create a culture where we redefine who a cyclist is and what they look like.