‘How do we fix this?’: LeBron James takes fight to black voter suppression

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'How do we fix this?': LeBron James takes fight to black voter suppression

The LA Lakers superstar and emerging activist is taking on his toughest opponent yet: the disenfranchisement of black voters

From his 2012 tweet that declared #WeAreTrayvonMartin to his shirt reading I CAN’T BREATHE before a 2014 game to his opening of a public school in his hometown of Akron, Ohio, LeBron James has positioned himself as one of the nation’s most prominent athlete advocates over the last decade.

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Everyone talking about “how do we fix this?”  They say “go out and vote?”  What about asking if how we vote is also structurally racist? https://t.co/GFtq12eKKt

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