CIVIC RESPONSIBILITY

AFTER THE VOTE

Are Democrats Going to “Vote and Ghost” As Usual?

As the world congratulates Georgia for finally stepping beyond its Confederate past and into its future, I am left with a harder question:

What happens after the vote?

Will we treat this historic moment when Black women are governing from high positions in the State (now and forever known as a “Black Job”) as though electing the right person instead of just the “white” person automatically creates the right government? They ditched Kamala, so we voted for “I’m EVERY Woman” in her place. And we can keep doing so.

If only 50-percent of the voting public (instead of the usual 25–28%) showed up and did that much, guess what happens when “running trying to make 100 because 99 and a half won’t do” shows up and shows out?

Will we celebrate, take photographs, cash community checks and then disappear — leaving the people we elected to fight alone?

We did too much of that with President Barack Obama, and then blamed him when he couldn’t get anything done on our behalf because we didn’t “fight like hell” like the Capital Cockroaches did during the insurrection.

We called it an insurrection, they called it 1860s Patriotism “Boston Tea Party” style, switching from TEA to MAGA-ots.

Many people did not believe Obama could win, and ‘win’ he did, we celebrated the victory without…