Never forget the price paid for where you stand today.
Our resume as black people used to be just a flimsly, "For Sale" sign. None of us has had to directly experience the pain of separation or live with the disgrace and humiliation that comes with not being free. When you cast your vote for who will run our country, never forget your history and keep this bill of sale in mind. When we allow ourselves to forget our not so distant past, then we are destined to repeat these actions in our future. Stand for those who came before us and those who could not stand up for themselves. VOTE!
Rick Wade, African American vote director for the Obama for America presidential campaign, said that despite record numbers of voters who turned out during the presidential primaries last spring, eight million Blacks are still not registered to vote. He explained that the eight million unregistered Black voters accounts for 32 percent of eligible Black voting population nationwide. He said, “In 2004, African-Americans made up approximately 11 percent of the overall vote nationwide. If the percentage of African-Americans was a mere 2.5 percent higher at 13.5 percent, Democrats would currently be running for re-election at this time,” he said. “For example in the state of Ohio in 2004, we lost by 2 percent or 100,000 votes. There were 270,000 unregistered African-Americans. I use that as an illustration to show how the African-American vote can make the difference in a state and across this country. So the African-American vote can absolutely make the difference in this election.”
Stop sitting down brothers and sisters and get registered to vote. Are you sure that you are a registered voter? How do you know? Have you checked? You already know how we have been done historically as a people. Don’t you think we need to be on the safe side and make sure we dot all of our I’s and cross our t’s. Are all of your eligible cousins, aunts, uncles, momma and dem, daddy and dem, friends, nieces, nephews and neighbors registered to vote? Would it hurt to ask them? This election is not over just because Senator Obama is now the Democratic nominee!
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Posted By: Brother Marcus!
Monday, September 8th 2008 at 10:16AM
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