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For the voter registration movements in the 60s. my parents met in the movement. my father was desegregating public schools, my mother doing door to door registration. my first work with third wave foundation is going to inner cities and registering people who felt disenfranchised. so we reached out to environments where people were not encouraged to vote, to unemployment offices, to the housing projects. we had police following us when we were trying to register folks in housing projects. so i m a real product of these movements, and i feel very strongly at this moment as my parents did that not only do we need to change things like voter registration laws, we need to have the day off so people can register, we can vote for people on american idol via phone, we should be able to vote for president, make it easier. one of the things that it dr. king did so well is he made this a moral imperative. this is the question of who we want to be as a country, you ....

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