This is a great story -- and it will inspire you. It's another reason why I love Burnt Orange Report. You have to check out the post to see the pictures:
Early voting starts today in Texas. In Waller County, a primarily rural county about 60 miles outside Houston, the county made the decision to offer only one early voting location: at the County Courthouse in Hempstead, TX, the county seat.
Prairie View A&M students organized to protest the decision, because they felt it hindered their ability to vote. For background, Prairie View A&M is one of Texas' historically Black universities. It has a very different demographic feel than the rest of the county. There has been a long history of dispute over what the students feel is disenfranchisement. There was a lot of outrage in 2006, when students felt they were unfairly denied the right to vote when their registrations somehow did not get processed.
And, today, Karl-Thomas Musselman posted this video of the students marching for the right to vote. It's 2008 and they're still marching to vote: Would that the traditional media focused on stories like this instead of the incessant harping about the fake issues in which they get so caught up. Students having to march to vote -- that is REAL NEWS. (And, while this may not matter to the punditry, the fact that people still have to march to insure that they can vote isn't exactly something of which we can be proud.)
