Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Im down with the Hip Hop Caucus and the respect my vote campaign

Respect My Vote! is a non-partisan voter registration, education,and mobilization campaign, targeting African Americans between the ages of 18and 40 years old. In 2008, a year when the youth vote made history and was thefocus of the election season, it was young African American voters who turnedout at the highest rate, over all other young voters. This was in part due tothe 2008 Respect My Vote! campaign, led by the Hip Hop Caucus and celebrityspokespeople T.I., Keyshia Cole and others. It was also due to the grassrootswork that you and people like you did to inform our communities about theimportance of their vote.

The 2012 Respect My Vote! coalition of organizationsincludes: 100 Black Men of America; A. Phillip Randolph Institute; BlackLeadership Forum, Inc.; Conference of Minority Transportation Officials;Congressional Black Caucus Foundation; Hip Hop Caucus; IMPACT; Institute of CaribbeanStudies; International Federation of Black Prides; Men Can Stop Rape; NationalAction Network; National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education;National Bar Association; National Black Caucus of State Legislators; NationalBlack Justice Coalition; National Black Law Students Association; NationalCongress of Black Women; National Conference of Black Mayors; National Councilof Negro Women; National Pan-Hellenic Council; National Urban League; OIC ofAmerica; Operation Hope; and, Rainbow/PUSH Coalition