By June Boyd
Guest Column
This narrative is written dedicated to our young voters. As a long-time political activist, I have been voting since 1956. As I vote, I always remember the three young civil rights workers in Mississippi who were murdered just for attempting to register people to vote. As a young woman, I realized how important voting is based on that thought.
Unless it is family, I never tell anyone who they should vote for. However, this year 2024, Tuesday November 5, the general election is the most important that we as African Americans will have had in our lifetime. My experience over the many years I have been involved has given me insight with a pulse on the system.
In 2021, when Donald Trump left the White House, he took all the classified materials to Mar-a-Lago. Anyone would have to realize the fact he had been defeated, but denied it, and was attempting to continue to run the country and undermine President Joe Biden through social media. In fact, his network was named “Truth Social” when not much truth has come from same.
He has done a lot of damage to President Biden. I kept trying to figure out why Joe Biden and Donald Trump were even in the polls in spite of all the alleged illegal things Trump had been charged with. The common sense analysis is that he and his network have been busy the past three years attempting to destroy Joe Biden and create Project 2025. That would give him a lifetime of the presidency much like Vladimir Putin has grasped.
It is a new day; the honorable President Joe Biden made a decision to step down and endorse his Vice President Kamala Harris to run instead. My spiritual being had noted that COVID kept Donald Trump’s chances of getting re-elected; this year it is called KAMALA pronounced comma la, Mr. Trump.
At a press conference on Thursday, August 8, Trump let us all know he is not presidential.
The untruths he told as he addressed the media were absolutely unbelievable. He even mentioned Martin Luther King’s March on Washington (“I Have a Dream”) audience in 1963 which had 250,000 in attendance. He compared his January 6, 2021 crowd – estimated at around 53,000 – which he encouraged to overthrow the elected government. “We actually had more people,” he said in another lie.
Today, he is absolutely devastated that he is having to run against a “Black” female. As an example, recall his horrible behavior recently at the National Association of Black Journalists conference.
The untruths continue wherein he stated he has had 55,000 to 88,000 in attendance at his rallies in comparison to Kamala’s 1,000 to 1200 people at her rallies. Stevie Wonder can see through him and his fantasies. It is almost a sickness.
The political pundits have commented that Vice President Harris and her choice for vice president, Governor Tim Walz, have broken records of attendance and have opened up the race to a new path of success.
In closing, if you want to understand Donald Trump; just watch every name he calls an adversary or any statement made relative to same, it is really him. He should look in the mirror.
Please vote on Tuesday, November 5, 2024 as if your life depended on it. Believe me, it does. One additional note. Convicted felons, if you have served your time, even on probation, you can register or re-register to vote. That deadline to register to vote in the November election is October 5, 2024. It is up to us.