Whatever
you do in the voter booth on Tuesday, I urge you to rise above your fears.
Tomorrow is not about the woes of the moment; it is about the tomorrows of our
children. Once again, society has thrown down the gauntlet before us. Shall we
tell our children that we cowered and allowed our fears to dictate their future?
Will we accept the nebulous guarantee of more jobs and a stronger economy, at
the expense of the already poor and downtrodden? Will we fall for a revised
script and turn the reigns of our destiny over to those who drove the country
into the ditch in the first place? Or, shall stay the course and commit to four
more years of imperfect but steady progress.
Tomorrow, the choice of our tomorrows is in your hands.
Sylvester Brown, Jr.
is a St. Louis-based journalist, board member with the Peace Economy Project (PEP)and
founder of When We Dream Together, a
local nonprofit dedicated to urban revitalization.
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