Reimagining Democracy for a Good Life’s Post

"I imagine that everybody votes. Voting is not the end of democracy – it is the beginning" Angela Glover Blackwell spins the #Democracy Wheel with Baratunde Thurston and shares her radical thoughts on reimagining democracy. tune into the podcast here: plcylk.org/rd4agl #ReimaginingDemocracy #voting #VoterEmpowerment #goodlife

The news over the past weekend proves that we can reimagine democracy. Let's #ReimagineDemocracy for a Good Life together. https://plcylk.org/rd4agl

“Our existing composite population conspires to one grand end, and that is to make us [the United States of America] the most perfect national illustration of the dignity of the human family that the world has ever seen.” In 1869, Frederick Douglass outlined his vision for the new multiracial democracy. The United States has yet to witness a robust, just, vibrant democracy that equitably functions amid profound differences, but once again that opportunity is upon us. https://lnkd.in/ed6pXShf

We need to have conversations about what it takes to create a thriving #MultiracialDemocracy that would allow us to achieve a good life. The people who are going to be the future, are going to be prepared for the future.

The Founding Fathers never intended to include people like them in representative governance. In that way, the framers of democracy punched above their moral weight. Now, racially diverse leaders are breathing life and justice into principles that have been mere words until this point. The generosity of their vision is pushing the nation to deliver on the ideals that are enshrined in its foundational documents but have yet to be realized.