A MESSAGE FROM THE PUBLISHER
Whoever says to the wicked, “You are in the right,” will be cursed by peoples, abhorred by nations, but those who rebuke the wicked will have delight, and a good blessing will come upon them.
—Proverbs 24:24-25 ESV
By Bobby R. Henry, Sr.
I used to laugh at Chicken Little — running around shouting that the sky was falling. These days, I understand him.
I remember the song by OutKast BoB— bombs over Baghdad, tensions with Iran, instability in the Middle East as if the danger is always somewhere else. Yet right here at home, while we’re holding primary elections, voter suppression and disenfranchisement are moving with precision. The strategy no longer feels like winning votes it feels like stopping them.
This administration tightens the economic noose around Cuba where it seems like strangulation is policy, and starving a people proves strength. Gas prices climb faster than the morning dew disappears. And then comes the longest State of the Union in history dressed up like fake eyelashes long enough to brush dirt from the forehead. The tirade was filled with applause lines and declarations that everything is strong, stable, and secure, so too is a tooth that needs a root canal
But many Americans don’t feel strong.
They feel stretched. They feel uncertain. They feel unheard.
Maybe the sky isn’t falling.
But democracy weakens when participation shrinks. It weakens when truth becomes negotiable. It weakens when citizens grow tired and stay home.
Here’s the answer, not panic, not fear, not silence.
Vote.
Vote in the primary elections. Vote in the general elections. Vote like your voice is oxygen to a scuba diver because for democracy, it is.
If we don’t show up, we surrender.
If we don’t participate, we consent.
If we don’t vote, we give away what others fought, bled, and died to secure.
The sky doesn’t fall overnight.
It falls when good people stop looking up, stop showing up and start shutting up
Show up. Vote.
