The vote got us into this mess, and the vote will get us out.
There isn’t space enough on our bumpers, our lapels or this page for all the stickers, buttons or words to express opposition to what is wrong with the actions of this administration. Their policies are literally killing us, and if we don’t vote like hell, to paraphrase the twice-impeached president, we won’t have a country anymore.
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller recently dismissed a journalist by declaring that the real world is governed by strength, force and power. I agree with the words, if not the intent. Our collective vote in November has the strength, force and power to hold the line and stop the trauma we see and feel from this callous, indifferent administration.
The vote. All over the world, people fight like hell to get it. Florida’s deadline to register to vote or change party affiliation is July 20, 2026.
Nancy S Cohen, Lighthouse Point
(Editor’s Note: To register to vote online or update your registration, go to registertovoteflorida.gov.)
Honored in Lauderhill
Samuel Wilkerson, who marched in St. Augustine in 1964 with MLK and helped secure passage of the Civil Rights Act, receives the first John Lewis Good Trouble Award from Lewis’ daughters, Angela Lewis Warren and Sheila Lewis O’Brien. Mrs. Wilkerson is at right.
In a night of commemoration, admiration and inspiration, Dr. Cornel West and Dr. Ilyasah Shabazz, Malcolm X’s daughter, spoke at MLK Legacy Night at the Lauderhill Performing Arts Center on Jan. 17.
The late U.S. Rep. John Lewis’ daughters Sheila Lewis O’Brien and Angela Lewis Warren were also honored onstage.
The lineup of speakers was truly breathtaking at the event, dedicated to the memories of former Lauderhill Commissioner M. Margaret Bates, who died in November, and former Lauderhill City Manager Desorae Giles-Smith, who died in September.
Also representing the city were Mayor Denise Grant, Vice Mayor Richard Campbell, Commissioners Melissa Dunn, John Hopson and Ray Martin and City Manager Kennie Hobbs, Jr.
The inaugural Lauderhill John Lewis Good Trouble Award was presented to city resident Samuel L. Wilkerson, who marched with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in St. Augustine at the historic Last March for the Civil Rights Act in June 1964, weeks before it was signed into law.
Susie Davidson, Fort Lauderdale
The writer is a freelance journalist.
The sad state we’re in
I did not vote for Donald Trump, but I respect the fact that he won a majority of electoral votes and is president for three more years.
I watch CNN, and at times Fox News, to better understand another viewpoint. At times, I sit back and try to make sense of the tumult in our country and throughout the world.
Our president, in spite of his shortcomings, has made some very positive changes in a very short time. But it’s a very sad state when listening to him every day, because you have to separate the facts from overt fiction, and how he makes an untruth and builds a case around it.
It’s a sad state when his staff members have to kowtow to him in front of the cameras to keep their jobs, or when his press secretary spews lies to the press to satiate her boss. My only salvation is that election day is around the corner. Make your voices heard!
Neil Levine, Boca Raton
A total fiasco
A summary of Donald Trump’s speech at the Davos, Switzerland World Economic Forum: It was insulting, offensive, belittling, humiliating and defaming of our long-time allies. A scurrilous, scandalous, diabolical diatribe.
Donald Kogan, Boca Raton
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