This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Savannah chapter.
Exercising my right to vote, never gets old.
Wanna know why? Read this poem I just wrote:
“So my ancestors built this joint for free!
And although emancipated, at 3/5ths a person we were still seen as beneath.
They still couldn’t vote, and in their fight for their rights, they were killed, jailed and beat!
Then feminists including my DST founding sorors got out and marched for women’s rights on weary feet,
All so I could be like ‘15th and 19th Amendment me please!’
So please believe when it’s time to vote, you’re gonna hear from me.”
Women, especially black women who needed TWO amendments for the right to vote (because they were female AND black) don’t waste your right.