The only obligation of a responsible citizen is to remain informed about
the political issues and political candidates. Voting should only occur
after acquiring information and seeing a candidate that best represents
one’s political and moral worldview.
Quadrennially,
blacks are subjected to the tedious and ethnically manipulative fib
that voting is obligatory in order to respect black ancestors. The right
reason for voting is to elect someone who one believes has the policies
and the character worthy of holding higher office. Voting should not be
done just to unthinkingly “fulfill a civic duty.” If, after careful
deliberation, one finds that there are no candidates that represent
one’s politics and morality, then abstaining from voting is a perfectly
principled option. It is an utterly puerile conception of civic
responsibility to maintain that voting in every election is
necessary — especially for black Americans.
It
is a scandal that black Americans are inanely guilt-tripped into voting
for pitiable, odious presidential candidates under the intellectually
flimsy pretense that not doing so is a colossal betrayal of the many
black people who “died for black suffrage.” This is not only transparent
poppycock, but it is also an immoral twisting of the historical record.
Those who push this line of argument operate under the pretense that
attaining the right to vote is akin to climbing Everest — a task of
mammoth proportions that only the most fastidious and disciplined of
athletes can accomplish.
The
reason why black suffrage was only realized by the Voting Rights Act of
1965 is because American racists presented relentless obstacles to it.
Is the right to vote a fundamentally good thing that should be exercised
with caution? Certainly. However, the assertion that blacks in America
“died for the right to vote” is casuistic drivel. Black people died
because racists refused to accept their humanity and ultimately killed
them. It is a statement of historical fact that voting was an
infinitesimally small part of that denial of black humanity in America.
To fail to comprehend, or to deliberately ignore, this bigger picture of
American anti-blackness is unacceptably dehumanizing.
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