I am going out at 10:00 AM this morning to vote and I am taking a book and a chair. As long as you are in line they have to let you vote. I thank God for the opportunity in my life time to have this vote. I worked with and was trained by Martin Luther King to get folk registered in South Carolina in the late 1950s and early 60s. Martin Luther King, Ralph Abernathy, a bunch of other folk you would not know, and I stayed in an old school building in McIntosh Georgia for training and strategies for getting folks to register and vote. At that time, South Carolina had a law that said, “In order to register to vote you must be able to read, write, and interpret the SC Constitution.” This meant that we not only had to recruit folk who were not afraid to vote, but we also had to teach them to read, write, and understand the constitution. I had classes of five to seven people at a time at St. John’s Baptist Church in Columbia. If someone had told me then that in 2008 I would still be alive, given the threats to life and limbs at the time, I would be able to vote for a person of color I would have lied and said, “That’s possible.” Deep down in side I would really not have believed it. Again, I thank God that I am able to vote today. Please go out to vote and stay there as long as it takes. Peace, Cjw