Politics

Still, We Vote

By Delonte Gholston
Voter registration booth in the 1960s. Kheel Center, Cornell University Library. 
Nov 5, 2018
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In the black community, voting has always been complicated.

We voted and yet you lynched us.

We voted and yet you incarcerated us.

We voted and you poisoned our water.

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Voter registration booth in the 1960s. Kheel Center, Cornell University Library.