We are doing a voter registration campaign.

We organized a fun and creative event to attract them and raise awareness of the importance of voting.

This is the first time in my life."

I have been an American citizen since 2003. I arrived in this country in 1979. I never thought my vote could count and 99

% of the candidates I have known in my life were always what is called lesser evil .

But the evil has never been so serious as it is today.

Biden is not a bad person.

He might be an idiot, but we've had some like this before.

I can live with it.

But here, with Trump, it is the evil that we are fighting.

This is what we are facing, this is why I made the decision to register on the electoral roll.

People come together to help mobilize people to vote, they come to register their loved ones.

But this is only the first part, because you have to register, and then you have to go and vote!

Voting operations begin October 13 until the end of early voting, one week before election day.

So that's only half the battle.

There is still a battle to be fought for people to go to the polls.

We are not telling you who to vote for, but we are asking you to go and vote.

The disappearance of George Floyd created an explosion of energy.

There was a lack of interest, frankly, among a lot of African Americans.

They were not involved in the political process.

But with this event as publicized and as horrific as the death of George Floyd, we now have a group that has real power and that really wants to change things.

George Floyd was killed in May, and there is still a lot of energy to bring together people who will more fairly represent people of color in this country.

The last time we saw this was with the Obama administration when he came to power.

There was a lot of hope.

There was a lot of desire for things to change.

We had not seen a large African-American mobilization to vote in the previous presidential elections and some would argue that this is in part because of this that President Trump came to power.

And quite frankly, the Democratic Party needs to do better.

For now his executives believe that a person of color will automatically vote for them simply because of the color of his skin.

There has to be a radical change.

Do I believe that participation will be better than in the past?

Yes, absolutely.

I have had proof of this with the young people I work with at the radio station, they all register to vote

At Black Lives Matter Houston, we are committed to educating people, helping them get to the polls and mobilizing people to vote.

It is one of the many levers that we use to mobilize people, to make them themselves agents of change in the city of Houston.

I think the black population is definitely going to be a key part of this election, because we have always been very engaged in elections since the 1960s, due to the fact that we had to fight to get even just the possibility to vote.

So we are a very dedicated constituency base.

This is the reason why it is important that people who run for office engage with the black community, because we are going to be a very powerful electoral bloc.

I don't know if it will be historic like when Barack Obama introduced himself, but I hope so, because Kamala Harris will represent us and that has a weight with the communities.

We reach out to our friends and say,

“Remember, check this, verify your registration, make sure you are still registered

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We have the power to change this society.

We just have to convince these voters, so that they express themselves at the ballot box and I believe that it works, we see it with the increase of inscriptions on the electoral lists.

It is a movement made up of thirty-something, Generation X of the Sixties, there is of all.

50

% of these demonstrators are not registered on the electoral roll.

They just never had an opinion.

They don't believe their vote counts and they don't follow politics like I do.

It is therefore our job to meet them, to train these voters, to give them the means not only to go to the polls, but also to stand for election and elect people to represent all of us.

Because politics is local.

Right now we have almost 3 million African Americans, and 2.2 million are of voting age.

About 8 months ago, Texas passed New York, we have the largest African American population in all of the United States.

So we really are the voters who will make Texas a Democrat, we can.

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