voting
... when your voice holds the key to the door. To deny yourself of this right, by not voting is simply taking your voice away. It is letting your convictions and your standards go in vain. Without this right your opinion and your right is not valued, and you are considered in non-existence. To vote is not only your responsibility but most importantly it is your right. The struggle that African Americans had to witness and endure so that we as a people could have equality should be the first reason that African Americans regisiter to vote. It is because of African Americans hard work that the Voting Rights Act of 1965 became a stepping stone for the African American community. This ACT created equality in the voting booths and eliminated systematic discrimination. As a result of this ACT an increasing number of African Americans of voting age have registered, and the number of African Americ...