It's Census Day and we all have a crucial role to play. Filling out the 2020 Census determines what the next decade… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Barack Obama (@BarackObama) April 01, 2020
Posts Tagged ‘citizenship
Finding The Good
As we count down to the new year, we get to reflect and prepare for what’s ahead. For all the bad news that seemed… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
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Barack Obama (@BarackObama) December 29, 2017
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A Fitting Welcome
My British-born husband takes his oath of citizenship today. In the packet for new Americans, the welcome letter fr… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
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Aisha Sultan (@AishaS) July 14, 2017
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In regards to Twitter, Facebook, etc., I say use all but accompany them with her other suggestions. All forms of communication can help on the road to change
I worked for Congress for 6 years, and here's what I learned about how they listen to constituents.
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Emily Ellsworth (@editoremilye) November 12, 2016
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Welcome To The American Family
I was holding it together till I pulled this out of the envelope... https://t.co/EZKJbs50co
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Peter Eavis (@petereavis) February 05, 2016
An Open Letter to Democrats
If you have the time to go out to a club on a weekend, you have the time to vote.
If you have the time to parse the intricacies of your NFL fantasy football league, you have the time to vote.
If you have the time to drink a freshly poured craft beer, you have the time to vote.
If you have the time to play six hours of games on your Xbox One, you have the time to vote AND volunteer.
Voting is both a right and a privilege.
It is a right because those who came before you fought and died to continually expand the franchise. African Americans in the South couldn’t vote before 1964. Women couldn’t vote before 1920. Universal suffrage was gained by long, incremental struggle. It was not handed on a silver platter, fully formed out of the Founders’ heads like Athena from Zeus.
Voting is a privilege because it is a privilege to be a citizen of the world’s last remaining superpower. It is a privilege because as a mere citizen you have the power to decide your fate. If you eschew voting, to paraphrase Plato, you hand that power over to your inferiors, or at the very least to people who don’t see the world in the same way you do.
We Are The Media
I haven’t written much about Ferguson since my last post, mostly because I can’t believe that in 2014 we’re reliving the 1960s.
But, this is something I haven’t done in the string of nights of unrest. I haven’t once turned on our vaunted mainstream media. No CNN, no MSNBC, heavens no Fox News. I’ve relied solely on Twitter to get information.
“But LL,” someone will say, “Twitter? People writing from their parents’ basements?”
Here’s a bit of what Twitter has produced.
[tweet https://twitter.com/elonjames/status/501886693994397697 align = ‘center’]
[tweet https://twitter.com/michaelterry337/status/501880608155385856 align = ‘center’]