The Fear Vote - #VestOrVote

by Kim D.

'Bulletproof Vest For Boys' Billboards by @DreamDefenders Put Twist On Police Brutality http://t.co/J4scR0DaTN pic.twitter.com/0DzBx925f1
— Angelia N. Levy (@angelialevy) October 16, 2014

According to The Daily Caller, in the final weeks leading to the November 4th mid-terms, getting out the vote in the black community will be critical in repeating the success that Barack Obama experienced in 2012. Knowing that the black community traditionally votes for Democrats, what better way to strike fear and desperation for the coming election than to insinuate that if Republicans win, black children will be less safe.

A community organization group with ties to labor unions and to George Soros is out with a dramatic get-out-the-vote ad featuring an African-American mother forcing her son to wear a bullet-proof vest in order to protect himself from being shot by police and “vigilantes.”

As part of its “Vest or Vote” campaign, which is meant to leave the impression that abstaining from voting increases the need for a bullet-proof vest, Dream Defenders is also selling what it calls a Dream Vest. The retail price for the protective garment is $149.99.

Rather than using the vest to protect against all gun violence, the Dream Defenders ad focuses only on threats posed by law enforcement officials or armed private citizens.

“Every 28 hours an African-American is killed by a police officer, security guard or vigilante,” text from the ad reads. “No parent in America should have to put their child in a bulletproof vest,” it continues.

“On Nov. 4, you have a choice; Vest or Vote.”