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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"If you leave here today and you don't register to vote you are dishonoring Aretha"
Rev Jesse Jackson just said this. I applaud him and his courage to face down his Parkinsons. And I respect him to use this platform to get people to register to vote.
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"If you leave here today and you don't register to vote you are dishonoring Aretha" (Original Post)
kimbutgar
Aug 2018
OP
And Rev Dr William Barber said the same thing. Loved how their eulogies to Aretha blended
iluvtennis
Aug 2018
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blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)1. AMEN JESSE AMEN!!!
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)2. Love him.
Meowmee
(5,164 posts)3. Good for him
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)4. Applause.
iluvtennis
(19,858 posts)5. And Rev Dr William Barber said the same thing. Loved how their eulogies to Aretha blended
in Aretha's civil rights passion to inform ppl how critical it was to get out to register/vote.
VOX
(22,976 posts)6. Damn straight, Rev. Jackson.
V O T E
ancianita
(36,055 posts)7. Amen, amen! Get out the Amen Vote!
pazzyanne
(6,556 posts)8. Who says tRump has the religious votes of this country.
He has the evilgelican votes, but we have the votes of the true people practicing the best of of all religions. Resist. Persist. GOTV.
2naSalit
(86,612 posts)9. K&R
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)10. I was his convention whip in 88. I swear
When he walked in the room the air went out...he has such an amazing presence.
He's funny too
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)11. THIS. THIS is activism. (nt)
Cha
(297,240 posts)12. That's what all the Smart People are talkin'
about! GOTV!
appalachiablue
(41,132 posts)13. Rev. Jackson was great, and right- V-O-T-E!
peekaloo
(22,977 posts)14. "Long lines for death, no lines to vote"
Preach!