Apathy?

I remember a phone call that I got from my aunt nearly 4 year ago in October of 2008. She told me that me grandmother was in the hospital and that her heart was giving out. The doctors gave her about 3 to 5 years to live.

Nonetheless, my grandmother fought hard and believed that she would live to be 100 years old. Unfortunately, she would die on November 26, 2011 at the age of 83.

When my grandmother was in the hospital that October of 2008, she told those doctors that they were going to have to release her so that she could vote for Barack Obama.

And she did it...She got out of the hospital and voted and lived long enough to see a black man elected to the presidency of the United States of America.

I will never forget that. It actually saddens me when I read Facebook posts by young people and others who are apathetic to politics and the right to vote. Do they understand that human beings were beaten and killed simply for wanting to exercise their right to cast a ballot?

What does that say about human nature? Are we really that selfish and narcissistic?

I want to be optimistic...but something tells me that this is wishful thinking.

Until next Monday...