So I’m like, ‘Yeah, I’m going to wear my Black Lives Matter shirt and go vote,’ ” Arias told The Washington Post on Tuesday. But when he arrived at the polls in Cummings, Ga., an election worker told him he would have to take the shirt off if he wanted to vote, saying the message it relayed was activism. ADThompson described the poll worker as expressing his belief that Black Lives Matter and the slogan “I Can’t Breathe” were “political statements connected to the Democratic Party.”AD“Our voters are not going to be intimidated. ADShields said the poll worker who initially stopped Arias over his Black Lives Matter shirt was new this year. He said he also thought of the Black voters who overheard the exchange and wondered what it must have felt like to hear someone argue that “Black Lives Matter” is a political statement.

Source: Washington Post October 21, 2020 01:12 UTC