Racism in the form of suppressing the votes of African Americans and other minorities has surfaced again in the upcoming 2020 elections in the United States. While there are no literacy tests and poll taxes as was used in the days of Jim Crow, the subtle strategies utilized today include preventing mail-in ballots especially in the era of COVID 19, official government ID required to vote and the closing of many voting locations in black and other minority neighborhoods. African Americans and other minority communities must not despair. While the fight continues to remove these obstacles, you must do whatever it takes to vote - drive longer distances to voting locations, get a government ID, mask up and go vote, mail in your ballots where it is allowed and urge your family members and friends to do the same. Vote, please, vote in this election. It is too consequential. In addition,in voting, you honor and respect the lives of your ancestors and others who suffered and even died in helping to secure the right to vote.