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THERE ARE MANY REASONS WHY EACH OF US
SHOULD VOTE
CHANGE
I was born by the river in a little tent…
Oh and just like the river, I’ve been running every since
It’s been a long, a long time coming…
But I know a change gonna come, oh yes it will…
FREEDOM RIDERS –BUSES BURNED
It’s been too hard living…
BRUTALLY MURDERED IN MISS. IN 1955 Emmitt Till, age 14
But I’m afraid…
FOUR LITTLE GIRLS – BIRMINGHAM, AL 1963
to die…
I don’t know what’s up there beyond the sky…
It’s been a long, a long time coming…
But I know a change gonna come, oh yes it will…
I go to the movie………………
FIRE HOSES – Hosed as we marched
and I go downtown…
Somebody keep telling me……… “Don’t hang around”
It’s been a long, a long time coming…
But I know a change gonna come, oh yes it will…
KATRINA
Then I go my brother and I say, “Brother, help me please”, but he winds up knockin’ me back down on my knees…
Oh, there been times that I thought I couldn’t last for long, but now I think I’m able to carry on. It’s been a long, a long time
coming…
VOTE!!!! YOU OWE IT TO YESTERDAY, TODAY AND
TOMORROW
But I know a change gonna come, oh yes it will…
Robert Kennedy statement in the 1960’s broadcast on Voice of America Radio Network
“There’s no question that in the next thirty or forty years a Negro can also achieve the same position that my brother has as President of the United States”.
VOTE
YOU OWE IT TO MORE THAN JUST YOURSELF!!!!