In rural North Carolina, dog-whistle politics focused on scapegoating minorities for social and economic problems have long fueled racial resentment but have done little to address high poverty rates and rising inequality, says Alicia Walker-Patterson. This is why Walker-Patterson, deputy field director of Down Home North Carolina, works with other grassroots organizers to get residents in rural areas engaged in the political process and to show them that their voices matter. Since 2016, these progressive activists have organized areas like Alamance County and other parts of deep-red, rural North Carolina that have long been ignored by the Democratic Party. However, just going door to door and asking voters to support their cause doesn’t make much of a difference, and that is why Down Home relies on deep canvassing, a strategic approach to canvassing that draws on active listening and asking non-judgmental questions to spark deep, meaningful conversations.
In this on-the-ground report for our special series “Defending Democracy in the 2022 Midterm Elections,†TRNN’s Jaisal Noor and Joshua Komer speak with members of Down Home North Carolina about how they are working to build working-class, grassroots power one voter at a time.
Pre-Production/Studio: Jaisal Noor, Joshua Komer
Post-Production: Jaisal Noor, Joshua Komer, Cameron Granadino
This story is part of a series that was made possible with the support of the Solutions Journalism Network, a nonprofit organization dedicated to rigorous and compelling reporting about responses to social problems.
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Inspiring. Very cool.
For the unholy algorithm
Voluntary
S e g r e g a t i o n
This is beautiful to see
《《《《《《《 Black people are kinda of ignorant to want to stay on the American plantation where they are not really wanted!!
For God sakes people your forefathers where slaves & you could do 100x better in other countries!! There is generational of blood crying up from the grounds there in Babylon!!!
Read Revelation 18, hopefully more of you will wake up!!!!!!!
FU Shnickens- La smhoove amybe but its upon the woman ran by the man not trying to be funny but you settle for pretty but small
Trump 2024. Democrats have destroyed America.
That's my dawg, that's my dawg smokey voice proud of you comrade Alicia
Great video
If 4 white guys assault a black guy it's a hate crime. When 4 black guys attack a white guy it's a Tuesday in every city in America.
Voting is an Exchange—-Offer the ADOS community some Concrete Tangibles, Some Meaningful Policy / Legislation——not Hollow Symbolism and Duplicitously worded Legislation, and we'll come out to Vote ! We are so tired of hearing about the "first Black dis and First Black dat" in Public Office who has absolutely No power who cant or wont Intervene on anything. Just there to keep the Status Quo ! Tangibles Please, Jaisal.
Thank you for shedding light on this for us all
We are all collateral for the debt they create as a means to pay back the debt to the bankers
Divide so they can conquer us all into pure slavery as we are all slaves to the free money they get from everyone no different than parasites