Gary Chambers
@GaryChambersJr • 124,167 subscribers
Zoey’s Dad | Curator - Civics for the People | Entrepreneur/Strategist/Thought Leader | Booking email: [email protected]
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I TOLD Y’ALL. The Deep South doesn’t lack voters. It lacks investment. Listen to how many votes I said he needed and look at how many he got. Damn near on the money. I said it on Joy Reid (Unemployed Former Host Parody Account) . I said it on @richlessonspodcast. I said it to the DNC chair. And I built Civics For The People to help organize communities across Louisiana. You can support that work through the link in my bio. Now Scott Colom has been declared the winner in Mississippi, according to CNN. Congratulations to Scott and the people of Mississippi. The people made this possible. The South has always been the prize. The people have shown their power. Now we’ll see what the Democratic Party does with that reality. The 2028 road to the White House now leads through the Deep South. Louisiana, we got next… Let’s go to work. Share if you care. 🦾
Gary Chambers52,227 görüntüleme • 2 gün önce
Politico reports that Black voter turnout is reshaping the midterm elections across the South. Share this if you are Black in the South and want to send a message. Help ensure we don’t get drowned out. We have to ensure that Black political power translate into Black political representation be engaging our people today’s Each of these candidates can win on Tuesday if Black voters show up in big numbers. Georgia: Keisha Lance Bottoms, Governor Keisha Lance Bottoms South Carolina: Jermaine Johnson, Governor @drjermainejohnson Florida: Angie Nixon, U.S. Senate @angieforfl Mississippi: Scott Colom, U.S. Senate Scott Colom Louisiana: Jamie Davis, U.S. Senate @jamieforlouisiana These races raise a bigger question: Who benefits from the surge in Black voter participation? We cannot trust that other communities will support Black candidates so we have to turnout at a higher number to ensure they win too. Their winning will equal more investment in our communities, which is not happening at the levels it should because we only hold a few of these positions of power. November 3 is Election Day. Know your ballot and make your voice heard. I need you engaging the people in your network. Outvote the racism. Share if you care. 🦾
Gary Chambers53,407 görüntüleme • 11 gün önce
A year ago, I said Mississippi and Louisiana could be competitive with real investment. Turns out, I was right. Now the country is talking about Scott Colom in Mississippi, while @jamieforlouisiana came within 25,000 votes in Louisiana. I made the case directly to DNC Chair Ken Martin in April, after raising the same concerns on Joy Reid (Unemployed Former Host Parody Account). The Deep South doesn’t lack voters. It lacks investment. Maybe it’s time national leadership started listening to Black folks on the ground who know what they’re talking about. Support Civics for the People through the link in my bio. We’re building political power with or without them. Share if you care. 🦾
Gary Chambers28,456 görüntüleme • 7 gün önce
Had to get the business clear with Officer Tatum about a few things. When Black people talk about the lack of resources in our communities that isn’t about asking for handouts. It’s about making sure our tax dollars come back to our communities like everyone else’s. When conservatives funded snap, it was because they didn’t want to hurt the business owners. When I talk about schools, roads, parks, and public investment, I’m talking about fairness and accountability—not charity. People like Tatum are why I created Civics for the People to inform and engage people against the nonsense people like him spew. Support Civics for the People by clicking the link in my bio so we can keep educating people on how government works and how to use that knowledge to create change. I’m not new this, I’m true at this. Share if you care. 🦾
Gary Chambers198,958 görüntüleme • 3 ay önce
James Talarico ran up the score in the whitest area of Texas. Meanwhile Harris County — home to a million Black people — only produced 189,000 total Democratic primary votes. Talarico had a strategy to target white and Latino voters and the data shows that’s how he won. Black people have to realize the power we have and maximize it. People don’t want to highlight raw numbers because they cut out the emotion. They paint a clear picture of how we got here. Black communities in the Deep South aren’t being engaged at the level needed to turnout and flip states. That is the core issue with the Democratic Party. If James Talarico is going to be successful in the fall he’s going to need to engage Black voters in Texas with the same funding and energy he’s put into Hispanic voters. Beto lost chasing the middle while 900,000 Black voters in Texas stayed home when he ran. I don’t apologize for wanting more Black leadership in America. We elect 80-85 white people to the U.S. Senate every term. I believe if we want something different we have to do something different, we have to send a different type of leader. I’m going live to discuss this further, Black people we have the numbers to shift the landscape. We need a hyper focus on turning our people out. Doing so will increase our power, which unlocks wealth and will benefit the nation as a whole. In God we trust, everybody else bring data! Share if you care 🦾
Gary Chambers308,882 görüntüleme • 8 ay önce
Look at their faces. What do you see? I wanted to look them in the eye and say, on the record, that they are attempting to reconstruct this government to undo Black progress. Their targeting of @calvin4clerk is rooted in that reality, and it needed to be called out plainly. I showed up speaking for myself. No organization in Louisiana sent me. No party asked me to come. I say that to make clear much of this work is being done independently, without formal partnerships, and without the budgets, staff, or institutional backing many established organizations have. I came because what they are doing is wrong. The court reconstruction happening in New Orleans has been done in different ways already in Baton Rouge and across this state—especially in the largest, Blackest cities—to dilute Black political power. I started Civics for the People because I know many of us don’t know what is happening inside government or how these systems are used. It’s my way of teaching the game and helping our people move with knowledge. Their elections are in 2027. We can send them home to frown and chew grass much gum as they please. If you believe this work matters, support Civics for the People at the link in my bio so I can teach the people and send some on these people home. Share if you care 🦾
Gary Chambers199,837 görüntüleme • 6 ay önce
A group of 5-10 white men, organized and fundraised with 800 people, to mobilize a vote of 17,421 people to breakaway and create a new city in my home town. People often ask me why I’m so direct about race. It’s in my face everyday how clear some in our city think about Black people and leadership. Baton Rouge is only on its 2nd Black mayor in its 200 year history. So historic neglect by previous leaders created a tale of two cities. I’ve been saying it for over a decade. Now it’s here. One day these videos I make will start getting you to ask why aren’t you doing more? These white men all over 50 just organized an effort that will impact us for the next 200 years. And if more people had showed up, if more people had organized, we wouldn’t be here. To my folks in Atlanta. Take notice. Buckhead and what they attempted to do a few years ago, trust they are taking note. I hope you are too. There are people in this country who will do everything in their power not to be under Black leadership. Let’s be clear, what’s wrong with America wasn’t created by Black people. What’s wrong in Louisiana is inequity that breeds all the social ills including crime. I want to be very clear, they drew the line in the sand when they created a new city. So I intend to be lending my voice to make sure we protect every investment for the citizens of Baton Rouge. We’ve built the South Side, and they packed up their toys. Now, it’s time for Baton Rouge to do what is in the best interest of Baton Rouge. This is and has always been a war for resources for them, we need to do whatever is in our power to protect our resources as a city. There is no room to compromise with people who have literally divided this community, to make a 70% white city. All the people who say, they couldn’t put up with what people put up with in the 1960’s. You’re on the clock, we in the field working at this change. You can join us whenever you realize these types of people are after your kids resources everyday. You’re paying into the system it’s about time we fully take control of some things and show folks what to do with power. Yall gone hear me one day… #KeepPushing #AlwaysRising in spite of
Gary Chambers748,585 görüntüleme • 2 yıl önce
It’s a wild thing to watch the Vice President of the United States post content suggesting that white men are being discriminated against. That mentality has existed in America since Reconstruction, after slavery ended. The idea has always been: they deserve everything, and everyone else should have nothing—because it’s all “owed” to them in a fairytale version of America. A country that became the richest on Earth off the free labor of enslaved people, including the ancestors of Southerners like me. Black unemployment is rising under Trump and Vance. America is less affordable for everybody—including white men, the majority of whom voted for Trump. Black people are under attack in this country. The propaganda is designed to keep those attacks going by convincing white men to blame Black people instead of the billionaires who are actually robbing us all—laughing all the way to the bank. America isn’t harder for white men because of Black people. It’s harder because, like generations before you, you bought into the “white is right” lie. You chose the white guy again—and now he’s cashing the checks while telling you to call a hotline.
Gary Chambers270,898 görüntüleme • 10 ay önce
The Justice Department is sending election monitors to Baton Rouge, New Orleans, and Lafayette tomorrow. 180,000 Black voters have already voted early, with 752,000 still eligible to vote on Election Day. Don’t let anybody intimidate you at the polls. Stay in line, we got time. And if the feds are watching, be fresh as hell when you show up. Share if you care. 🦾
Gary Chambers13,876 görüntüleme • 11 gün önce
Yall gone hear me one day. Black turnout exceeded white turnout in Louisiana’s May election. Black voters are 31% of registered voters, but made up 34% of the people who showed up. I was on here every day telling y’all to vote because this is what happens when Black people participate at higher rates. We influence elections the same way we influence culture. Jeff Landry lost all 5 constitutional amendments. Even in Republican parishes, voters rejected his agenda. Never underestimate the power of informed, organized Black voters. And to be clear, this happened while Black folks are underfunded in this work in Louisiana. One thing the record will always show is, I did my part. Share if you care 🦾
Gary Chambers107,667 görüntüleme • 5 ay önce
When Trump said Hispanic migrants are “taking Black jobs,” what he really meant was: Black folks are taking white jobs, and we need to get the plantation back in order. I’m from the Deep South—the 50th-ranked state in the country. A state that’s over a third Black, yet run by conservatives who always find a way to blame Black communities for its failures. So, I’m never shocked by statements like these. But I do wonder—do all the folks who like to play nice and pretend everything is fine still feel that way today? We have a choice in how we move forward with each other. Trump should be letting the investigation play out, but he can’t help himself. He’s on a mission to restore what he and Elon see as the natural order: intelligent white men and women in charge—who, in reality, are just mediocre—backed by a handful of others who pledge their loyalty to whiteness. At this point, I just want us to stop pretending. And to the Black folks who never support Black leaders—is this better? The future we want won’t build itself. It’s on us to fight for—now.
Gary Chambers333,138 görüntüleme • 1 yıl önce
Where did all the racists from those 1960s photos go? I’ve got living relatives older than Ruby Bridges. We act like the people in those photos just magically stopped being racist. No — they stopped sending their kids to public schools. A lot of private schools in America were created right after segregation ended. Those same people raised children who went to those schools, grew up, and kept passing down those beliefs. They just learned not to say certain words in public. But the current climate proves there are still millions of people in this country focused on advancing their rights while diminishing ours — just like then. People call me radical. But nothing I’ve supported has been radical. Some folks have just been more comfortable — comfortable enough to ignore America’s realities. That comfort’s wearing off every day under this administration and in governors’ offices across the nation. The sooner more of us accept reality, the sooner we can build a new one — one that’s just, equitable, and profitable for all people. Always good to be with Urban League of Louisiana.
Gary Chambers206,077 görüntüleme • 1 yıl önce
Louisiana has now crossed 295,000 early votes, including 95,000 Black voters. Black voters are accounting for roughly 32–33% of early turnout statewide, closely matching our share of Louisiana’s population. Orleans Parish leads with 14,880 Black early voters, followed by East Baton Rouge with 12,703. Democrats have also cast more early ballots than Republicans statewide, 124,000 to 121,000. There are still 837,000 registered Black voters statewide who haven’t voted early, and early voting continues through October 27. Voting is a group project. I’ve done my part today. Check your parish numbers, make your voting plan, and encourage others to participate. Share if you care 🦾
Gary Chambers16,730 görüntüleme • 20 gün önce
I’m Black first. This nation was founded treating Black people as property, and even today there are ongoing efforts to restrict Black political and economic power. Conservatives will try to gaslight you, but I prefer facts. Under Brandon M. Scott and Governor Wes Moore, Baltimore has seen its lowest homicide levels in decades. Even Stephen A. Smith had to ask Officer Tatum what’s wrong with identifying as Black first when you understand America’s history and its relationship with Black people. I know exactly who I am, and I’m not afraid to say it. Share if you care. 🦾
Gary Chambers91,441 görüntüleme • 5 ay önce
Officer Tatum lacks listening skills, and I don’t let people lie without correcting the record. I also want you to pay attention to the tactic many conservatives use in debates: when the facts get uncomfortable, they pivot, deflect, and avoid answering the question. Earlier in this conversation, I pointed out that Garrett Graves, a white conservative, represented North Baton Rouge for a decade and failed to make the kind of transformational investments our communities deserved. Instead of addressing that reality, the conversation was redirected. We shouldn’t be afraid to expose misinformation. If we don’t challenge lies, people make decisions based on bad information instead of facts. If you value content that breaks down politics with facts and helps people better understand how government works, support Civics for the People by clicking the link in my bio. Your support helps us continue educating communities and equipping people with the knowledge to turn information into action. Share if you care. 🦾
Gary Chambers60,731 görüntüleme • 3 ay önce
Louisiana ranks near the bottom in damn near everything that matters — economy, crime, education, healthcare, infrastructure — but instead of fixing that, they’re focused on taking power from a majority Black community in New Orleans. This bill to remove the Clerk of Criminal Court isn’t about reform. It’s about control. You can’t say you believe in local control and then override local voters when you don’t like who they elected. I said it plain: this is reconstructionist, and it’s racist. You use the government as a job farm building jails in your to employ your constituents and then talk efficiency and eliminate jobs in Black communities. You’re failing your voters and some of them are starting to see the light. Every vote you make reflects your moral character. History will remember. So will the voters. Share if you care 🦾
Gary Chambers107,686 görüntüleme • 7 ay önce
The Honorable Hakeem Jeffries of New York just gave the best opening speech I’ve ever heard for a session of Congress in my lifetime. Possibly the best in history from a minority leader of a party. He gave poetic delivery of what is possible in America. I pray for his success.
Gary Chambers535,209 görüntüleme • 3 yıl önce
Lane Kiffin made it plain: the number one priority for NotGOVJeffLandry and the powers that be in Louisiana wasn’t our schools, our infrastructure, or our people — it was making sure LSU got a football coach they liked. The governor told the public his priority was “protecting taxpayers” — even though taxpayers don’t pay coaches’ salaries directly. Meanwhile LSU just signed another $90 million contract with an 80% buyout. So much for fiscal responsibility. I keep saying Louisiana ranks #50 because of the leadership we elect and what they choose to prioritize. Too many of us want to like the person we vote for or agree with them on every issue — and if we don’t, we stay home. Well, this is what you get when only 36% of voters show up and a governor “wins” with support from just 19% of registered voters. Share this and make it the conversation. Because Jeff Landry doesn’t care about building a better Louisiana for all of us — just the ones who think like him. The rest of us are left holding the bag while he chases headlines. The governor is polling under 40% and the antics keep coming — day after day. But some of y’all said Shawn Wilson “wasn’t exciting enough.” Well, you’re getting all the excitement you asked for with Jeff Landry. Every. Single. Day.
Gary Chambers160,399 görüntüleme • 11 ay önce