To understand why Republicans are pushing for laws to make it more difficult for young people to vote, you need only to look at recent events in Tennessee.
this week for the interim—Jones was voted back in on Monday, by the Nashville Metropolitan Council, and Pearson is due to be voted back in on Wednesday, by the Democrats who control the Shelby County Board of Commissioners—but G.O.P. leaders have threatened tofor projects in the Memphis area if Pearson is reinstated, according to a Shelby County commissioner.
The assault on democracy in Tennessee is also a reminder of how quickly the swirl of politics can overtake. I asked a friend, David Dark, a progressive evangelical and an assistant professor of religion and the arts at Belmont University, a private Christian institution in Nashville, what was not being reported.
Dark also told me, in an e-mail, “The prophetic task is to dramatize the moral contradictions we are otherwise compelled to abide as normal. During Holy Week, they tried to deny the Tennessee Three, but they ended up magnifying them. Our local beloved community is now international news, just as it was when Rev. James Lawson, Diane Nash, John Lewis & others staged the lunch-counter sit-ins. A friend messaged me to say that Tennessee is going off the rails.
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