May 17, 2011 - Primary Election Day
We were warned of the implications of not voting last November. One would think that we learned our lesson. One would be wrong.
The Rethuglicans and Tea Party-ites are not playing.
To date, there are only two Blacks in the newly-elected Pennsylvania governor's cabinet, the one in is executive staff is a bodyguard and the advisory commissions on Asians, Hispanics and African Americans are now history (under the guise of budget cuts).
It seems as if I've signed more online petitions against legislative attempts to roll back the clock on Capitol Hill in the first five months of the year than any of the previous years combined. Yet when I cast my vote this afternoon at 5 p.m. the poll worker crossed off number 18 on her precinct tally sheet. Even my optimism won't allow me to be deluded in the hopes of mass absentee voting.
Is it possible that that there are no eligible voters in my community because they are all felons? Nope. They aren't registered? Maybe. Or is it despair and apathy? You betcha.
Sometimes its hard to muster enthusiasm for something as abstract as voting when you struggle with the immediacy of making it from day to day keeping the kids feed, clothed, paying bills, rent and daycare. This is not justification or an excuse. This is a reality in our inner city communities.
Voter apathy is the collateral damage of complacency, ignorance, laziness and a general lack of intelligence and an abundance of decaying brain mass from a lack of critical thinking.
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