Special envoy to Charleston and Columbia
There are around a hundred black pastors and activists gathered that morning around breakfast in a Baptist temple in Charleston.
They came to listen, between porridge and scrambled eggs, to a PowerPoint presentation on the need to encourage their flock to vote in the Democratic primaries on February 3, the first in the country.
“In 2020, 400,000 African-Americans in South Carolina were not registered to vote
,” said the speaker.
We can't stay behind this year.
The stakes in the election are too important for our community.
Remind your parishioners every Sunday to register and go to the polls.
" Easier said than done.
“I worry about the lack of interest.
No one is motivated to vote.
We lack energy while the opposition is back on track,”
laments Kwadjo Campbell, one of the participants.
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