Our right to vote

Our right to vote

Today is election day and even though this isn't an election for a presidential candidate it is still a very important election.

Today we will vote on who really has the say in this country, see the President may want this or that but the finally say comes from the Senate and Congress. It is these people who will make the decisions that will effect us, our children and generations to come. This my friends is a critical vote.

So Today I will vote because of the millions who fought for that right and for millions more who don't have that privilege.

Today I will vote for people like Rosa Parks, who took a stand and said enough is enough.

Today I will vote for women who matched before me, who were jailed because they were brave enough to speak their minds.

Today I will vote for Martin Luther King and for what he stood for...
When he spoke these words "I have a dream that one day right there in Alabama little black boys and little black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers"
I will vote for equal rights for all.

Today I will vote for President Kennedy who said in his inaugural address that spoke his famous words, "ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."

Today I will vote for my children so they may grow up to still have this right someday, to live in a free country.

Today I will vote so that women may still have the right to have the final say about their bodies.

Today I will vote so that we may take a stand against racism and the brutal murders of so many innocent black men.

Today I will vote because I believe in compassion and love and not hate and racism.

Today I will vote because I will be voting on the blood, sweat and tears of so many who couldn't vote for so many years and fought the fight for me to have this privilege.
Here are some startling facts you may not know:

White women couldn't vote until 1920

Asian women couldn't vote until 1952

Native American women couldn't vote until 1957

Black women couldn't vote until 1965

That my friends was not a life time ago, that was not even a generation ago for a lot of us...Hello and just as fast as we could lose our voices...

I will leave you today with the famous quote from Martin Niemöller about the Holocaust but we can and should use this for the climate in our world today.

"First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me"

We all have a voice and if we do not execute it, we may not have a voice left...
So today I will vote...

"Be the change you want to see"
 
"And just when the caterpillar thought his life over...he turned into a beautiful butterfly"

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