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They were all sent by the school headmaster, brought there by bus and told to stand upright in the queue until each one’s turn.
“You are the hope of the nation. You have to vote.”
She had been among the others too. But her protest was not of the weak ones who first denied and later didn’t care. Her father spent his best years in prison for one of his representatives in government; her mather had lost her work, her house, her life energy and the political spirit around them, now, over a decade later, hasn’t change so significantly. She knew it and she felt it. And she didn’t want to treason her parents.
She refused to decide between black and black. She refused to vote. And so she stood beside, her eyes focused on she didn’t even know herself what.She simply, silently, refused.