As the days are winding down to Election Day this year, there are still a lot of people of color who are saying they’re going to "sit this one out", which is baffling to me. It’s always been baffling to me when African-Americans don’t vote, knowing what our ancestors have gone through for us to have this privilege, then for us to turn around and just squander it, like it means nothing… but especially this year.
We have the first woman of color to ever make it this far running for the highest office in the land. Our very real freedoms are on the line in terms of a woman’s right to decide what happens with her own body, rolling back equal rights in education and in other sectors we’ve fought so hard to gain, and the very real threat of demolishing the constitution which affects our very way of living in this country! Why would anyone "sit this one out"?
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