Dear Editor,
You would not believe how happy I was when I read in the East Tennessean 89 percent of ETSU students said they would vote this November.
They didn’t just say they were registered, but that they would actually VOTE.
Before I read the article, many of my friends said they weren’t going to vote because they had no reason to vote. I was stunned!!!
How could they not, women didn’t fight all those years for voting rights for nothing.
Heck, we were like the last people to receive the right to vote.
The 19th Amendment in 1920 was our ticket to freedom from being over-ruled by the male population.
African American women should feel even more honored to vote because they had to deal with sex AND race discrimination.
Women’s voting is the least we can do to show respect for all the hard work our “Fore Mothers” performed. And I don’t care what you say – your vote CAN make a difference.
But, hey, if you want to sit on your butt and be over-ruled by the male sex then that’s your problem but I think it’s stupid and I won’t let it happen to me.
Emily Isaacs