Election 2020: I’m Choosing Hope and Faith Over Fear

I am sitting here the day before the election and surprisingly I feel very hopeful. I know that seems crazy after what happened in 2016, but the time is different this country has had four years of the orange dictator, and folks are tired over forty million people are out of work over nine million have contracted COVID-19 and over 230,000 people have died circumstances are quite different from what they were in 2016 as I’m writing this over 40% of registered voters in the country have early voted in my home state of North Carolina over 62% of registered voters have cast a ballot let’s compare that to 2016 out of 250 million registered voters only 137 actually cast a ballot, so that means over 113 people million people stayed home.

Joe Biden is the Democratic nominee training the white man who was humble enough to play second chair to the first Black president, who was also humble enough and he did secure the first year , chose a Black, Southeast Asian woman to place in the second chair. From a gender and race perspective, this ticket could not be more diverse. It represents America. For many voters to see some type of representation of themselves, coupled with the inept and deadly dereliction of duties by Donald Trump, American citizens are not only energized, but motivated to change the course of this nation. Gone is the apathy from 2016, and it has been replaced by the hope and change…