To Vote or Not to Vote, Why Is It Even a Question?
Voting is Communication and Power
An election is coming up. An election is always coming up. Not just the 2024 Presidential Election, which, according to pundits, will determine the fate of our nation or could mean the end of Democracy as we know it. There are state and local elections. Votes as to who will sit on school boards and appraise properties. Governors who, depending on your state, may behave like dictators if given the chance.
I wrote this eight years ago, before the Presidential election. It rings as true now as it did then. It was published in 2016 in the Inner City News, where I was a regular contributor.
Voting wasn’t something you only thought about or talked about; it was something you did.
I have a friend, an African-American single mother of two, whose eldest daughter is coming of age to vote in her first Presidential election. As I understand it, her daughter had no plans to vote and feels it won’t make a difference. In frustration, her mother asked me if I could speak to her daughter and convince her of the need to…
