County commissioners, judges, the county attorney and the school board shape the lives of the families I serve, so I vote all the way down the ballot. But voting is twenty minutes every year or two, and nobody on any ballot is coming to build what our people need. Fannie Lou Hamer bled for the ballot and bought land for Freedom Farm. We can do both too. Read the full essay on Substack: https://zuhdae.substack.com/p/voting-is-the-bare-minimum
Get back to building, because that part was always ours.
Note 1
Local races get decided by a few hundred votes.
Note 2
Written after Oakland and Birmingham, October 2026.
