So I’m currently in line to vote absentee. The woman behind me says she just got out the hospital after having her 3rd heart attack this year.
She needs a chair and they give her one she needs to carry with her.
She needs a chair and they give her one she needs to carry with her.
Obviously we aren’t having it. So I switch her chair for one from the computer lab (voting place is a library) that has wheels.
She’s too fragile to carry a heavy chair around this library for an hour.
She’s too fragile to carry a heavy chair around this library for an hour.
One of the workers come back with a chair without wheels and tells her she can’t have it. I was about to respond but before I could all the Aunties jumped out of line to advocate for her.
Everyday Black women remind me that we keep us safe and that our collective strength is the only thing we need to get free.
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