The Kickback With Keri: Black Entrepreneurship & Business Spotlights
Oct 20, 2026 · 13 min · 7 segments
#46 When it feels like nothing changes no matter who you vote for, it’s easy to tune out. But voter apathy comes at a cost. When we stop participating, we give up opportunities to shape our…
I can understand why some people may be apathetic when it comes to voting, right? For a number of reasons.
They may not know the history or understand the extent of the history of our parents and our grandparents' generations that went through this.
So you can be apathetic if you did not have to know a struggle, be a part of a struggle, or really grasp a struggle that happened before you to understand why or how you're able to live the way you live now.
Number two, there may not be an understanding of how voting can impact your daily life.
And so if you see administration and a Congress that doesn't really do a lot of work, you're going to feel like, well, voting doesn't really matter because they're not doing anything anyway.
But we forget that a lot of the decisions that impact our daily lives are at the local and state level.
Number three, there are many people that feel used and abandoned, right? Let's be honest, the black vote has been the backbone of the Democratic Party.
And so if you're always showing up for the Democratic Party, and then once people get in office, your interests are kind of get left behind.
People may feel like, well, what do I keep voting for you for if you're not going to take my interest into consideration.
And that's just not going to be possible because we're all human and humans are flawed.
I can understand why some people may be apathetic when it comes to voting, right? For a number of reasons.
They may not know the history or understand the extent of the history of our parents and our grandparents' generations that went through this.
So you can be apathetic if you did not have to know a struggle, be a part of a struggle, or really grasp a struggle that happened before you to understand why or how you're able to live the way you live now.
Number two, there may not be an understanding of how voting can impact your daily life.
And so if you see administration and a Congress that doesn't really do a lot of work, you're going to feel like, well, voting doesn't really matter because they're not doing anything anyway.
But we forget that a lot of the decisions that impact our daily lives are at the local and state level.
Number three, there are many people that feel used and abandoned, right? Let's be honest, the black vote has been the backbone of the Democratic Party.
And so if you're always showing up for the Democratic Party, and then once people get in office, your interests are kind of get left behind.
People may feel like, well, what do I keep voting for you for if you're not going to take my interest into consideration.
And that's just not going to be possible because we're all human and humans are flawed.
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