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February 07, 2004

I guess this makes me an activist

Activists Urge Blacks to Vote
By Deborah Barfield Berry
WASHINGTON BUREAU

February 3, 2004

Orangeburg, S.C. - The Rev. Joseph Lowery tucked the voting brochures under his arm and strolled up to the woman plucking laundry off her clothesline.

"How ya doing, darlin'?" the prominent civil rights activist from Georgia asked as he handed her the brochures. "We came up here to encourage you to vote. ... We need you to turn out the vote Tuesday."

The woman nodded, promising to vote and to urge others to go to the polls. Lowery, 82, headed to another house.

More than 20 years after making a similar trek through the same rural communities in South Carolina, Lowery and other civil rights activists, community leaders and local politicians returned here last weekend hoping to spur blacks to vote in today's Democratic presidential primary.

A high turnout here could not only help determine the party's nominee, but set the tone for national efforts to get more blacks to vote in November, activists say. That turnout, they say, is key to taking over the White House. "I want them to set the bar high," Lowery said of black South Carolinians.

Democratic presidential candidates have courted blacks, who form about 30 percent of the population and are expected to make up half the state's primary voters. A win could show a candidate's broad appeal and energize the party's most loyal base.

"They realize how important our vote is, but we don't," said Derrick Williams, an Amityville native who moved to Orangeburg about five years ago. "If we did, more of us would get out and vote."

Posted by P6 at February 7, 2004 05:49 AM
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I'm an activist too, then, in the Muslim community. This year, the community is having huge voter registration and GOTV drives. The Democrats will be the beneficiaries; support for Bush is practically non-existent. And this from a community that voted as a bloc for Bush in 2000 (you should sit in on some of the discussions about this!)

Posted by Al-Muhajabah at February 7, 2004 04:55 PM

I've decided to take the other tack. I actively discourage people from voting. If you are smart enough to be plugged in, you realize why you should vote regardless of what someone says. If you are some soft-skull who let's one guy convince you not to vote, then you are probably too stupid to be trusted with the country anyways.

Posted by Phelps at February 8, 2004 02:31 PM