WHY BLACK PEOPLE DON'T VOTE AND MY SOLUTIONS FOR IT...

My good friend Elliott called me today and said "Ant P, what is all the commotion about with this election?  Why are people complaining about it when they havent tweeted about it until yesterday?"  I told him you know how are people are, we are quick to complain about anything.  Then I caught wind of the actual percentages of african americans that voted...4.7%.  That is sad, like really sad.  It got me to thinking, what are the reasons my people dont vote?  What could we do about it? Well...lets see i we ca figure it out....

1) THE ACTUAL VOTING PROCESS ITS OUTDATED AND TEDIOUS...
I woke up yesterday morning wondering how I was getting to the polling place.  See I still use my grandma address as my address because I dont trust my mail going to the east side of chicago (if you know me, you know I dont particular care for the type of people that leave east of cottage grove).  I ended up borrowing a co workers car and driving to vote during my lunch hour (my job gave us 2 hours to vote).  This was a rather inconvenient thing since I had a lot of work to do yesterday.  Why is this voting process so hard?  There are numerous things that are asinine that you can do easier than voting.  You can order whole bedroom sets, vote for dancing with the stars, change a flat tire, pick up a prostitute, or even order a 6 piece with mild sauce and a mystic from Harolds, and all these processes are easier than voting.  AND THEN DO YOU REALIZE THAT WE HAVE TO VOTE ON A WORK DAY? ITS ALREADY HARD GETTING TO WORK ON A REGULAR DAY!!

Antp's Solution:  Stop making election day the first tuesday of November.  Shit gets done on the weekend, and so should voting.  This should be the most obvious solution.  Aint nothing easy when I gotta wake up to 'beat the crowds' and that includes buying Jordans and voting.

2) WHY DO I HAVE TO VOTE AT ONE PARTICULAR POLLING PLACE ON ELECTION DAY?
We put a man on the moon, we made snooki famous in america, why the hell can't I vote where I want to on election day?  Yes I know that if you vote early you can vote at any selected place, but we all know one thing...BLACK PEOPLE AINT DOING NOTHING EARLY...we just not.  So I am sure technology has advanced far enough that you can make it possible to vote anywhere in the city.  This shit is so outdated that people were calling me yesterday if they could vote anywhere and when I told them no, they just looked confuse.  I can vote right after work if you let me use the polling place by it jerks...

Antp's solution:  Make polling places on election day open to where anybody can vote anywhere in a city...I think thats simple as hell to do!

3) PUT THE POLLING PLACES AT VENUES THAT BLACK FOLK WILL BE AT?
Niggas aint trying to go to church on sundays, let alone on a cold tuesday.  Early voting at the police station? Not when I got warrants chief. 

Antps solution: Lets get some polls at places you know niggas be at like Aldi's, Ultra, East of the Ryan, the 50 Yard line, hell even my house.  Any nigga who throw live house parties should request his house to be a polling place.  You know its people on the North Side of Chicago who houses are polling places?  This would work for us, I would even have Ella make spinach dip if you niggas came to vote at my crib...

4) WE JUST STARTED BEING AWARE OF THE ISSUES SINCE 2007...
...When Obama started his campaign.  I know alot of my friends have been aware way longer than that, but the average black person couldnt tell you who held all the office in the state before 2008.  Thats when people had election night viewing parties and all type of cute stuff.  And since we got Obama in, we all thought we did our job and that we didnt have to pay attention anymore.  Admit, some of yall aint even know it was an election this year until two weeks ago.  If we don't educate ourselves nobody will.  With all this technology around us, we still dont pay attention to the most important thing...THE NEWS....I watch the news at least three times a week just to see what type of shit they trying to pull off.
Antp's solution: Just read and watch, you'll be surprised how many bs laws they are trying to pass on our ass!

5) WE JUST DON'T CARE
Even though Im writing this blog, in the end...we as a whole still wont get out to vote unless they take something critical away from us,  like our right to be a hoodrat or sag pants.  We too comfortable.  There is no rallying cause for us to be unified behind, the black leaders in our country now our either a) untrustworthy or b) not compelling enough.  And the fact that everybody thought when Obama got it in that magical things were going to happen (like lazy niggas magically getting jobs) that they got discouraged when they dont see immediate results.  This is just the state we are in, sad but true, and to get out of that....I don't have an answer for as of yet...

TIL ANOTHER DAY...HOLLA AT YA BOY!