Voting brings reflections on America, rights
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Editor,
We cast our ballot today, and I followed the path that many of my ancestors fought and died to pave for me.
Great-uncles beaten within inches of their lives because they wanted to vote, Jim Crow laws making it absurdly difficult for men and women of promise to add voice to whom should lead them, in the same Republic that enslaved them and disenfranchised them.
Today, I followed the footsteps of every Edmondson and Martin before me, those who remember Jim Crow and the craziness behind it, those who challenged the laws of the land and stood against injustice.
Today I did my part, America, my inalienable right as a citizen of this great country and as a son of an African-American heritage, that is second to none.
My right to choose; my right to give voice; my right to give expression freely; my right to expectations from my nation; the rights my dad said were mine; and my right as a born-again believer to trust my God is all things concerning my country.
My heart is overwhelmed, and tears flow down my face because I fulfilled my duty as an American and followed the hope of Frederick Douglas, Harriet Tubman, W.E.B. Du Bois, Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Barack Obama and that of my parents and grandparents.
What a great feeling of accomplishment; what a great day of fulfillment; I love American and may God continues to bless it, in Jesus’ name, because I still believe in her and her great future —”the undiscovered country.”
Keith Edmonson
Polson
