"I'd rather they did it in a real ballot box, not in academia" You mentioned you're not american so please allow me as an american to educate you on how minori

"I'd rather they did it in a real ballot box, not in academia" You mentioned you're not american so please allow me as an american to educate you on how minorities and voting work. Minorities are systematically targeted in america to prevent voting. America, in fact, has a long and fairly recent history of attempting to prevent minories from voting or to make their votes literally worth less than others. The electoral college, for example, is a system that allows rural white communities to by and large have votes that are worth more than the votes of urbanites, which are often more diverse and have more people of color. Areas with significant people of color voting populations have historically had laws in place or new policies being pushed to make it more difficult to vote (see: voting is on a weekday, voting booths are hard to get to and lines are long due to lack of voting booth number, the disallowance of mail in voting or the outright throwing away of mail in votes.) That is to say, this sentiment is all well and nice, and I agree with this sentiment. But in America it is unrealistic to say minorities should stop using what benefits they can and should continue operating under systems that devalue them.