Dear Ella

[ojouchan]

 
Dear Ella,

You may not know me, but today I vote for you.

Because you could not.

I'm voting for you because you had no say over your body. I'm voting for you because your mother, also named Ella picked cotton and raised children in fear. I'm voting for you because as a poor sharecropper in the deep south voting was dangerous for you even if

Comments

[reynardfox]

Seconded. Beautifully written.

[allthelivesofme]

I've read a lot of essays about voting in these past several weeks-- this is one of the best. Wow.

[theryk]

Beautiful sentiment, a beautiful prayer.

[ruggerdavey]

I'm with shadrad. You moved me to tears.

Today I voted for myself and my students and my nephew that is three months old and my oldest sister's best friend who is getting married in 2010 to his partner of 12 years with my sister as his best woman and for my father with all his health problems even if he didn't vote the way I did today and for my mom and the hopeful recognition of her job in early childhood education as essential to the success of children's lives.

[purpletophat]

Beautiful. ♥