{"id":9035,"date":"2014-11-06T11:31:36","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T16:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/?p=9035"},"modified":"2014-11-06T11:47:08","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T16:47:08","slug":"a-small-meditation-on-the-ghosts-of-elections-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2014\/11\/a-small-meditation-on-the-ghosts-of-elections-past.html","title":{"rendered":"A Small Meditation on the Ghosts of Elections Past"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"susan<\/a><\/p>\n

I was quite moved when I saw this photograph of Susan B Anthony\u2019s gravesite and all those \u201cI voted\u201d stickers on her gravestone. <\/p>\n

We all owe her and those others over the many years who suffered terribly to gain this right. <\/p>\n

I was just reading some of the analysis of Tuesday election and how the majority of voters were white men. Last I looked that wasn\u2019t what America looks like. So, why is that what the voters look like?<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not a big fan of shaming. But, perhaps some of us need to do some thinking.<\/p>\n

Those who did not vote, why?<\/p>\n

Did someone stop you?<\/p>\n

Were the candidates not pure enough?<\/p>\n

Because it was inconvenient?<\/p>\n

I\u2019m sure the litany of justification is long.<\/p>\n

But right now I think of Susan B Anthony\u2019s grave. I think of those who suffered to gain the vote for all of us.<\/p>\n

And I think of ghosts haunting us\u2026<\/p>\n

Those who suffered for all of us to have the right to vote can be a blessed cloud of witnesses or the shades of rebuke. <\/p>\n