A MESSAGE FROM THE OTHER ROBERT F. KENNEDY: "Let no one be discouraged...."
On Election Day in November we volunteered as "Poll Chaplains" in Flint at the Freeman School Polling Place for an Interfaith organization called Faiths United to Save Democracy. Our task was to ensure that people who wanted to vote could do so without interference... to mediate any disputes and to help ensure a free and fair election. We met fine people we agreed with and disagreed with politically; one Republican volunteer told us he didn't like his candidate's views on immigration, a Democratic youth volunteer was pushing environmental justice, a local Baptist pastor came to support our mediation work. We spent a day "on the ground" outside of the Ann Arbor bubble. It was inspiring and hopeful. The result of the November Election shocked me. I had believed that the "better angels" of the U.S. society (As defined by Lincoln is his first Inaugural Address) would prevail to create unity, hope, service and equality so that our nation could ...