Quotation:

“I live my life with an assumption that I have the right to do the things I think I should do, and that my gender and my race should not be limitations.” -Stacey Abrams Fight for A Fair Vote

“‘For most people from the outside, every story you read, every narrative you’re told, except for a couple of months out of the year, is about how you’re not supposed to be one of these people.’ The net effect, she writes, is that people view themselves as ‘ancillary, not essential’ to the decision-making processes.” -Stacey Abrams Fight For A Fair Vote 

Comment: The first quotation really made me happy. The entire time I was reading this article, I couldn’t help but fan over Stacey Abrams. She really is such an icon and such a good role model for so many young people to follow, it baffles me. So many things that she speaks about move me in so many ways, mostly good, and I’m just really a big fan. This is one of the things she speaks of that just strengthened my interest in Stacey Abrams. She is 100% right. Nobody’s gender, race, sexuality, etc. should be a limitation to what they believe they should do. I want this quote framed and hung on the wall in my classroom when I become a teacher. 

I felt that the second quote really supported the conversation we had in class about how important just one vote can be. We had touched on the subject of people saying, “Well, I’m not gonna go vote because it’s just one vote and it won’t matter anyway.” Which, I understand that one vote doesn’t seem like much but look at it perspectively. All of those people that say that and decide not to vote adds up. All of those uncasted votes are the votes that could potentially change so many things in an election. When the subject first got brought up, I related it to money. It would be like if there was a fundraiser going on for a great cause and I had said, “Well, I’m not gonna go donate my money because there’s plenty of other people donating their money so my money won’t make a difference.” If everybody said that, no money would be raised. Your $1 doesn’t seem like much but if 1 million people all donate just $1, $1,000,000 would be raised. 

Question: In Stacey Abrams Fight For A Fair Vote, when Stacey is talking about how voters are not dumb, she mentions “cynicism”. What is cynicism?