Vox Populi:

Black voters waited in 10-hour lines to show up for Joe Biden. Now Biden needs to return the favor.

America owes its Black citizens so much.

During a pandemic that has killed Black people at disproportionate rates, we still managed to save our democracy by getting out the vote in what may have been the most contentious presidential election in modern history.

Considering what we were up against — an administration that has put the lives of the American people in danger as COVID-19 spreads like wildfire — there was no choice but for Black people to show up at the polls in droves. Our lives depended on it.

Even President-elect Joe Biden acknowledged in his victory speech that “the African-American community stood up again for me.” Recent exit polls showed that 87 percent of Black voters backed the Biden-Harris ticket.

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