“Unless we get more people in office, we will not have the capacity to defend against a white supremacist administration,” said Rev. Michael McBride, campaign director for PICO National Network’s LIVE FREE campaign to end gun violence and mass incarceration, in a press release. “No one will give us power, we will have to save ourselves. The clearer we are about that, the sooner we will see shifts.”

Andrea Marta, who has worked on numerous campaigns said oftentimes people of color are left out of local and national conversations whenever election period comes around, engaging minority communities only when it suits candidates.

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