Dear Source:
Congratulations! To President-elect Barack Obama and Vice-President Joe Biden, to their families and supporters; especially the young voters and those White voters who were able to accept and judge him by his character and his worth.
I feel remiss, as a born U.S. citizen, born in New York City I was only able to vote for Sen. Obama in the Democratic Primaries. This is a policy that exist for U. S. citizens living in U.S. Territories, that we as citizen forfeit the right to vote for the President. What I find just as disturbing is that Jewish American citizens living in Israel are able to vote in America for the President. There is the belief, that because the Territories are ninety percent black, ethnic people, that we would be too large a voting block.
As citizens, of the U.S. of America, it is our right to vote to those who will have an impact on our Lives.
This is a Change that needs to be addressed. A Hopeful Citizen.
Ivan Butcher II
Virgin Islands
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