Dear Mr. Thomas,
I am one of those college students that you referenced. The reading, researching, and volunteering I’ve done over the last few months contradict everything that you said. The irony of it all is that in attempt to categorize young volunteers you dummy down the debate. Speeches VS solutions is all I keep hearing… Understand this, I’ll admit it, a speech drew me in- but in no way shape or form did it stop there. It evolved into researching, educating myself and my friends and from there phonebanking, traveling to multiple states to canvas, putting together voter registration initiatives to help other young people get involved. The failures of the youth in terms of political involvement were never a result of apathy or laziness- we’ve remained silent out of the insistence that our voices don’t matter, that our actions are obsolete. Senator Obama has asked for our assistance, long term, and we’re responding. Feel free to choose any candidate, but what I ask you and the rest of the pundits to STOP doing is belittling the work of the youth…if you only saw what I’ve seen over the last few months you would agree that what’s going on right now is amazing…don’t let it pass us all by.
