12 views
Go Get the Vote!
I stand still in the hot heat outside a empty school hoping to enter and cast my vote.
Go get the vote, my ancestors voices ring out loudly in my ears. Four-hundred years of slavery and oppression of my race. Years of K.K.K., white-hoods riding up and down the streets terrorizing black and brown faces. Silly, idiot test by people of non-melanin skin handing out test to our people. With questions, after questions that have nothing to do with this right to have their say.
I stand here in line with people of every shade now. The year is 2020 and I don't face any Jim Crow laws, or other discriminatory laws now to stop me today. This time...
Go get the vote, my ancestors voices ring out loudly in my ears. Four-hundred years of slavery and oppression of my race. Years of K.K.K., white-hoods riding up and down the streets terrorizing black and brown faces. Silly, idiot test by people of non-melanin skin handing out test to our people. With questions, after questions that have nothing to do with this right to have their say.
I stand here in line with people of every shade now. The year is 2020 and I don't face any Jim Crow laws, or other discriminatory laws now to stop me today. This time...
