The Fight It Took To Vote

The fight it took to vote

There are 10 days left until the election, and I am going to be speaking on this a lot until then.

If you follow me, you know that I think it is an honor and privilege to vote. Not so many years ago, our ancestors fought, and many died for this right you and I now have.

Years ago, they had all kinds of roadblocks to stop people from voting, such as literacy tests, because they knew that many could not read. They had grandfather clauses, as if your grandfather voted you could, but many blacks were slaves, so this kept them out of the voting.

If you had a felony, you were disenfranchised. Ha! How far we've come. Now we have a felon running to be president! 

There were taxes placed on voting, and many poor people couldn't afford to pay these taxes and so they could not vote.There were understanding clauses to see if you could understand the legal terms. Many poor people could hardly read, let alone understand legal terms, and could not pass these tests as well. 

And women, well, women had no rights at all. We were just the property of our husbands. All of this happened so they could hold on to power. The power they felt was only for rich white men.

Women didn't get the right to vote until 1920, Native Americans didn't get to vote in every state until 1962.

Imagine that? We steal their land and then make them wait until 1962 to vote on a land that was theirs. Yeah, that is some kind of bullshit! But now they won't even allow it to be said in our school textbooks. As if we could just erase what we did.

Blacks didn't get the right to vote until 1965! And that was after many years of fighting and being killed for that right. Yes, you read that right, that was only 55 years ago! 

They did all of this to target communities so they could hold on to the power. This was common all over the country, but in the south, it was the worst.

By 1940, only 3% of blacks in the south were registered to vote. It wasn't until the sixties that the protests finally gave black people the right to vote. And yet they are still trying to keep our voices from being heard. Did you know that in 2013, the Supreme Court knocked down one of the pillars of the Civil Rights Movement by saying the areas covered by the voting rights act changed, but the law has not kept up.

Capital states and counties that the voting rights act had regulated could now change their election laws without federal pre clearance. This meant that half of the United States enacted new restrictions on how people voted. This also meant it gave them free reign to make it harder for people to vote.

They had the power to close 1688 polling places, and between 2012 and 2018, lines grew longer. With Black and Latino voters waiting 45% longer than white voters, seriously, does this even make any sense? Why did they do this? Because they don't want us to have a voice just like back before 1920. They want all of the power, they don't want to know what women, Blacks, Latinos, Native Americans, Asians or any other people of color or poor white people have to say because it doesn't benefit them and their causes.

Then they started talking about voter fraud in 2017, because they figured if you have no transportation to get to the polls on that one day when most of the world must work then they would start to take away your way to vote by mail.

When Trump was elected, he got a commission together to look into all of this "voter fraud," but 8 months later, he disbanded them because they couldn't find any fraud.

One analysis found that in 3 vote-by mail states, they only found 372 suspicious cases out of 14,600.00 ballots. So that tells you they are only trying to do this to suppress votes, to not let our voices hear. The elderly who can't get out, the single moms who must work to feed their families and can't get off in time to vote. The poor who would have to find a way miles away from where they live to vote. Anything to make it harder for many to vote.

Here is a startling fact, did you know most countries besides us have elections on weekends and in a few, voting is more than a right? It is a duty, just like jury duty.

Another huge thing is that almost all of them make voter registration entirely automatic. Wow, what a concept! Imagine that making voting easier? 

And why can't we do this? We already know the answer to this question, because politicians who are getting payoffs, politicians who sit on high benches for life with big benefits don't want any of this to change. Are you kidding? They like that the good ole boys are still running the show, but one thing that they have forgotten is that we are the voice of this country. We have the power to change things, and so we need to vote, to run for office, to speak out for change because change starts with one person. 

One person like Rosa Parks who finally had the courage to say enough is enough. We need to be that one person, we need to change this broken system, we need more people that look like us to take charge and make changes.

So today, my friends remember we only have 10 more days left, and I am begging you to go out and vote… to make a change.

We need to change all of this to find out more go to vox.com/vote.

"Be the change you want to see,"

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