Exercise Your Vote

Please share your perspective about the importance of exercising your right to vote in the comments section below.

Cnn.com reported in April 2019 that "Black voters make up about 20% of all Democratic voters, according to 2016 primary exit polls and 2018 data from the Pew Research Center. To put that in perspective, about the same percentage of Democrats identified themselves as "very liberal" in the average 2016 primary with an exit poll as the percentage of Democrats who said they were black. Additionally, just slightly more Democrats are whites with a college degree than are black, per the Pew Research Center.

In other words, black voters make up about the same part of the Democratic Party as two parts that a lot of analysts like to hype for their growing power (college-educated white voters and very liberal voters)."

DemocraticGovernors.org reported recently that Republicans are working to restrict voting rights and are making false claims that vote-by-mail leads to voter fraud. They are doing everything possible to rescind environmental protections, and are suing to repeal Obamacare all while gutting social programs. Some are even defending Trump's use of military force against peaceful protesters just so he could pose for a photo op. 

President Obama is calling on all of us to VOTE.

Please watch the You Tube video "Wake Up Everybody" that serves as an inspiration for us to exercise our right to vote.

Please share your thoughts about voting in the comments section below.

https://youtu.be/3ZPusIeehQo

Wake Up Everybody - Babyface

[Wyclef Jean]

Ay! Wake up, wake up!

You've got the power

You've got the power

My people in the east shore, you gotta wake up

Midwest, dirty south, yo, you gotta stand up

All my homies in the west, yo, you gotta wake up

Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up

Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up

Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up

Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up

Wake up, wake up

[Mary J. Blige]

Wake up everybody, no more sleeping in bed

No more backwards thinking, time for thinking ahead

The world has changed so very much from what it used to be

There's so much hatred, war and poverty

[Monica]

Wake up all the teachers, time to teach a new way

Maybe then they'll listen to what you have to say

[Claudette Ortiz]

Cause they're the one's who coming up

The world is in their hands

When you teach the children

Teach them the better questions you can

[Eve]

Uh... scream "peace," do we mean it?

Can you feel it when we scream it out loud?

Do you believe that we need it?

Do you believe that it could get right?

Do you believe

That the children of the world deserve a good life?

Well, if you do, it's time to wake up your mind

We can make it better and I know it might take some time

But we gotta start somewhere

How about with you and me?

From us it goes to others

Then we'll have our unity

[Musiq Soulchild]

Wake up all the doctors, make the old people well

They're the ones who suffer and who catch all the hell

But they don't have so very long before their Judgment Day

So won't you make them happy before they pass away

[Ashanti]

Wake up, all the builders time to build a new land

I know we can do it if we all lend a hand

The only thing we have to do is put it in our mind

Surely things will work out

[Faith Evans]

'Cause they do it every time

[Fabolous]

I ain't here to take up y'all time

I came to shake up y'all mind

It's everybody's wake up call time

I can't sleep too long

While they do the people wrong

Let's clean the world up

Before they sweep through, gone

This is real talk you can peep through songs

So when you feel weak

These words will keep you strong

And help make a change for the better

It's hard one to do it

But make can make some changes together

(2x) [Chorus:]

The world won't get no better

If we just let it be

The world won't get no better

We gotta change it, yeah, just you and me

[Ad-libs: Brandy]

Hey, yeah, oh

Get no better

Let it be

Oh, we gotta change it yeah

Oh, won't get no better

Let it be, let it be, let it be

Better

[Jadakiss]

Set a goal for the plan up here

We gotta stand up here

Give thanks to The Man Upstairs

Put the egos and the pride to the side regardless

And just be role models, parents, artists

We can make a change

And we can make it the hardest

If you gon' make a baby

You should make him the smartest

Let him know good and bad, right from wrong

How to roll with the punches when life moves on

The stress won't take toll if you don't sweat it

World won't get no better if we don't let it

Let the negative energy ride

Keep hope alive

It's about time that we open our eyes

Wake up

[Jaheim]

Wake up everybody, no more sleeping in bed

No more backwards thinking, time for thinking ahead

The world has changed so very much from what it used to be

There's so much hatred, war and poverty

(Wake up! Wake up!)

[Missy Elliott]

Yup, we all best to vote

I don't care about the guns you tote

Listen to me like you listened to Fahrenheit 9/11

Ain't no time for the second guessing

The words I speak?

Wake up the ones who sleep

The leaderships?

Fix your mouth to teach

Emcees?

Teach the kids what's peace

They don't have to worry about the police

We make them rich so they don't have to thief

Every artist here on this track

Will make a change here for young cats

This is for everybody white or black

You better go and vote

And get up off your back

(3x) [Vamp:]

Wake up everybody, no more sleeping

Wake up everybody, no more sleeping

Wake up everybody, no more sleeping

Wake up everybody, time for thinking, thinking

[Ad-Libs: Natalie Stewart of Floetry]

The cypher goes on, lift your head, get your voice up

You see the power of the people is the choice to ignite love

Not a choice, it's a gift that our people had to fight for

And the price way too personal for anyone to ignore

A voice to be heard

[Ad-Libs: Marsha Ambrosius of Floetry]

Take the opportunity

Your responsibility

Your voice has to be heard

Save the world, save the world