{"id":680,"date":"2008-10-29T19:36:50","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T00:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/skyeview\/?p=680"},"modified":"2008-11-08T15:14:35","modified_gmt":"2008-11-08T20:14:35","slug":"a-bloody-path-to-the-ballot-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/skyeview\/?p=680","title":{"rendered":"A Bloody Path To The Ballot Box"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I vote because so many have sacrificed so much for me and mine.<\/p>\n

Telegenic Black Male Manufactured Charismatic Leadership<\/strong>
\nI neither support nor oppose Barack Obama and have really come to resent the assumption that my vote for him is a given.<\/p>\n

The names of Jesse Jackson and Colin Powell came up in discussions on potential first African American presidential contenders, but not once during this 2-year campaign did I hear the name of the late Honorable Shirley Chisholm. On January 23, 1972, she became the first major party African American candidate for President of the United States<\/a>.
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Roll Call<\/strong>
\nAs an Afriles feminist independent critical thinker I’m not willing to
\nquietly ignore the historical and contemporary contribution of everyday
\nfolk and a few extraordinary Black women who’ve made it possible for me to cast my vote.<\/p>\n

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\nFreedom Summer<\/a><\/p>\n

So as I cast my mail ballot today, I call out the names of ancestors\u2019 known and unknown who have cleared the path.<\/p>\n

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\nShirley Chisholm<\/a><\/p>\n

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Carol Moseley Braun<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nBarbara Jordan<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nFannie Lou Hammer<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nLet\u2019s flip the script in 2008 and remember the womenfolk this time around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I vote because so many have sacrificed so much for me and mine. Telegenic Black Male Manufactured Charismatic Leadership I neither support nor oppose Barack Obama and have really come to resent the assumption that my vote for him is a given. The names of Jesse Jackson and Colin Powell came up in discussions on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-sisterhood","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1c8Xx-aY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/skyeview\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/skyeview\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/skyeview\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/skyeview\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/skyeview\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/skyeview\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":725,"href":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/skyeview\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions\/725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/skyeview\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/skyeview\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/skyeview\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}