How to Honor Dr. King? Fight for Equal Rights – VOTE!
2022 – Critical Election Year
The United States of America is at a crossroads. Good, honest hardworking American’s can continue to throw their hands up in the air in despair. We can say, I’m not voting because I don’t like the candidates. They are all at fault. They are all crooked.
Trump’s Lies
We can let the fanatics launch dishonest media campaigns and convince a minority of Americans that election fraud happened.
We can sit back and watch our beloved democracy crumble before our eyes.
The High Road – Less Traveled
Or we can take another road. It’s on higher ground. It’s more difficult to mauver.
We can read, everything, we can listen to both sides, we can communicate calmly and debate like civilized, thinking, caring humans. We can stop judging each other and cling to the fact that we are all the same despite our differences.
We can try to love and try to stop hating.
Some Important Quotes
Let me paraphrase: “We hold these truths…all men (and women) are created equal.” July 4, 1776 – Declaration of Independence.
“I have a Dream…that day when all of God’s children, Black men, and white men, Jews, and Gentiles, Protestants, and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: Free at last. Free at last. Thank God almighty, we are free at last.”
“I Have a Dream” speech, delivered on Aug. 28, 1963, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
This is an important election year.
Instead of embracing the right to vote some elected officials are doing everything in their power to block the right to vote.
These are the two bills Congress recently failed to pass. They were blocked by Republicans and some Democrats.
The Failed Legislation
The Freedom to Vote Act would “expand voter registration, expand voting access with guidelines for mail-in voting and early voting, establish Election Day as a federal holiday, and prevent state lawmakers from redrawing districts so as to disadvantage Black and Brown voters.”
Additionally, the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act “would restore the Justice Department’s authority to police election laws in states with a history of discrimination, a key component of the 1965 Voting Rights Act the Supreme Court stripped away in 2013. The fight for federal voting rights legislation has been strengthened by a wave of Republican states implementing laws that restrict voter access, and essentially make it harder to vote, in the name of election security.”
Why? Money? Power?
My question to Governors who are blocking the right to vote for black Americans and other minorities and to the members of Congress who voted against these two Voting Rights Bills is WHY?
What is wrong? Have you lost sight of duty and honor? Is it all about a little Money? Or just the power?
Again, I say to the rest of you, Communicate, Read, Get Involved, VOTE!
Gloria Moraga, January 17, 2022
