Nobody is asking you to be an activist. No one is asking you to organize a march, lead a chant, or put your body on the front line if that is not your calling. No one is asking you to abandon your life, your work, or your sense of self. But what is  being asked, what has been asked for generations, is that you stop sitting out. Because sitting out is not neutral. We have watched our nation mobilize in real time. We saw it in the uprisings following the murders of Renee Good a

Our vote is sacred. It is protest and prayer, strategy and salvation. It’s the voice of the ancestors whispering, Don’t you dare sit this one out. It’s how we honor the blood that paved the road from Selma to Aurora.