Election 2008: The Privilege Of Citizenship
Posted Jan 17, 2009 at 6:14 PM
Sondra Myers,
Scranton,
Pennsylvania
My most poignant experience of Election 2008: canvassing with my Los
Angeles based son and his 8 year old daughter in a housing project in
Scranton, PA. Knocking on doors and seeing a lot of
children, and many women, some of whom had voted and others planning to, some not registered and some not
eligible. But in all cases more or less happy to have had a knock
on the door. We know that voting is a privilege, and citizenship is
a precious and, alas, rare privilege in the world; these people who
are seldom called upon to act as citizens remind me how important
it is to include those who are so often left behind. So in the
realm of good deeds, keep in mind that asking/bringing/helping people in
to the world of citizenship is important--for the individual and
for the society.
