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Sam Fulwood Race In Beyond

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In “ Race in Beyond: Why Young, Minority, and Low-income Citizens Don’t Vote,” Sam Fulwood III claims “ regardless of whether favored candidate won or a popular ballot initiative passed, our nation suffered because of a number of people who don’t vote at all” (par.2). I believe this too be true because I’m one of those Americans. However Americans change this, I can change this. Have you ever that expression, “The straw that broke the camel’s back”? Anyone of us Americans can be single straw. But even if that never happens, every vote counts. After all, it takes a whole lot of sand to make a beach. Have you ever wonder what it would be like if no one voted? Or would there be a bad president? Human history is written in are blood, and American

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