Joan Smalls Wants You to Use Your Platform to Encourage People to Vote
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harpersbazaar.comGrowing up in Puerto Rico, my grandfather was adamant about voting and being civically involved. He believed that since we were afforded this human right, it was our duty to act upon it—a necessity to invest in our future.
He was very opinionated, but my parents were never really into politics, so when it came to voting, we didn’t talk about it much.
However, the message my parents did teach me was to be kind and respectful to others, and to make a difference where I could.
Being in Puerto Rico, I felt like there wasn’t much of a difference that my vote would make since it’s a commonwealth and not an actual state within the United States.
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