"This Fourth of July is yours, not mine, You may rejoice, I must mourn."
-Frederick Douglass, What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
-Frederick Douglass, What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
I state this plainly and with limit idea how it might strike home for others: America needs to wake up.
I say this to those who look like me and stand with me: American minorities need to wake up.
I say this to those who work and remain poor as well as those who struggle and strive to survive from paycheck to paycheck, even those who have no employment and no foreseeable means of employment in the near future: America's working class needs to wake up.
If we do not wake up, we are doomed.
We will be doomed to repeat the last 4 years. We will be doomed to see racial tensions grow to the full extent of the law and boil over into bloodbaths and mayhem. We will be doomed to see the shrinking value of a dollar right before our own eyes. We will be doomed.
We will be doomed if we do not take an active role in the political process. We will be doomed if we sit back and expect the others to carry the weight of this election. We will be doomed if we simply accept what has passed for representation in the past as valid assurance that things will get better by and by.
Wake up and wise up.
We have to get active and mobilized, educating and empowering the average voter on how to use the power of his or her vote and voice.
#AwakenAmerica #vote2020
Revisit how 2008 was won based on concepts like HOPE, CHANGE, and YES WE CAN. Can we do something like that again?
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