I am second gen, the granddaughter of immigrants who call this country their home, who use English in their local grocery stores and Hindi on the phone with their brothers and sisters
who make their grandchildren our favorite aloo podi and chai for breakfast on Sunday’s, but love a good slice of Frederici’s pizza,
my immigrant grandparents who have lived in Queens, and Iselin, and Marlboro for 40 years,
yet will be voting for the first time this election
‘for our children’
they say, for a legacy that lives beyond their own,
for their business, their freedoms, their pride,
and beyond so,
for a country that has given them the proclaimed American Dream.
They vote because once, long ago, applying to this country with their own hopes and dreams, they were not able to.
You power as an American.
Cherish your voice.
Exercise your vote..for this election, and every hereafter.
For yourself, and a legacy yet to be written.
the len(z) 