The Importance of Voting (Revised)

Hello Everyone,

I've just watched Willie D's video about the 2016 Presidential Election. Willie D was part of the rap group The Geto Boys. According to Willie D, we as African Americans shouldn't vote in the election. Ok, I, Shaunta Simone Williams, think that is a bad idea. Not exercising your right to vote doesn't make our issues in the United States any better. When people ask you why are not choosing to vote and decide to advise you, you're not "being bullied" as some people say. Too many people have died, have been beaten and had their skin torn off their backs not for you to choose which person really has your best interest at heart. Black people who exist today and not choosing to vote in the 2016 Presidential Election wasn't there when black people in the 1950s and 1960s were being gunned down by police (and police have been doing that to black people for years, this problem just didn't start today). Black people who exist today wasn't there when black people from the past were getting lynched. It is easy for African Americans who exist today to say that phrase, "I'm not going to vote".
Black people who exist today wasn't there when black people from the past were facing unfair justices such as sitting in the back of the bus, going to segregated schools and receiving different types of education. And trust and believe when I say that black and white people had different types of education. In the past black people where told that they couldn't be a lawyer, a doctor, or they couldn't have a high paying office job position, because they wanted to keep black people at low standards. In the past black people were sitting separated from different races, using segregated bathrooms (where white bathrooms were clean and colored bathrooms were dirty), and using segregated water fountains. Black people who exist today wasn't there when  the KKK were implementing terrorism by making threats to black people from the past and burning crosses in front of their houses. Despite everything that happened to some African Americans during the last couple of years, African Americans who exist today are at the easiest time in their lives because they have the choice of what school and college and high paying jobs they desire. In places black people can sit anywhere they want. African Americans from the past when through hell really bad and had a difficult time in the United States of America. Despite all the ugliness that has happened during the last few years, African Americans cannot afford to "not vote". This 2016 Presidential Election is entirely too important for African Americans or any other minority in the United States to miss. The strategy of not voting is going to BACKFIRE, plain and simple. Every decision, choice that you make in the back of your mind has a consequence. If you really think black lives do matter, then prove it, cast your vote during the 2016 Presidential Election.

Whether you vote or not, what happens in the United States will still affect you as a U.S. citizens. When you do your part in voting, it is like you are having your say in the U.S, you who are part of the people are speaking, making the government hear you. When you vote, you are saying I want a better life, a better life and education for the children. But when you don't vote, you are choosing to stay silent and letting everything ride. Once again, you can't afford to sit and watch, you have to take action. Get out and VOTE!

Sadly, several Republicans in the USA are eagerly doing whatever they can to change our voting privileges (sending us back to the days of Jim Crow). If you, as an American citizen, don't use your right as to vote, then you don't have the right to complain about anything. If you as an American citizen don't use your given right to vote in the Untied States, then you are doing what your oppressor (Donald Trump) wants you to do. If you don't vote, not only you are doing the will of your oppressor, but you will be fulfilling the dream of the majority, who all these years viewed you as an animal and "property" and who (the majority) have hated the day that you as a human being have been given the freedom of a voice. We as the minorities of the United States need to exercise our right to vote because we have been intimated, whipped and forced into silence entirely too long in America. Now, if you don't like the candidates that the people of this country has chosen, I'm asking you to choose your battles wisely. Personally, I like Bill and Hillary Clinton because I remember both of them during the Clinton President Term in 1992. Bill was a wonderful President for the USA and Hillary is more than just the First Lady. Hillary Clinton was in politics all her life. I don't like Donald Trump because he is racist (in my opinion) and he doesn't know anything about politics and people will see that during the General Election Debate. As an American you must realize how important a vote is worth. When you vote, you are voting for change, you vote for a better atmosphere and better environment, and you vote for better rights.