Draymond Green made a critical mistake in 2016, one many Golden State Warriors fans may not know of.
While legend of his flagrant foul against LeBron James cost the team a valuable championship that year, Green also failed to vote in the presidential elections that year, something he laments to this day after Hillary Clinton lost to Donald Trump by about 10,000 votes in Michigan:
“I didn’t vote because I was just thinking our vote don’t matter. We’ve seen several people in the popular vote did not win. So, our vote don’t matter,” Green told William C. Rhoden of The Undefeated.
“When you look at the voting numbers, a lot of young people didn’t turn out, myself being one of them and especially a lot of young African American people. And it’s taken me to get educated to understand how important it is for us to exercise our right to vote and not listen to the garbage that’s being put out there and giving us all the false reasons that we can’t vote.”
However, the Warriors big man is determined not to make that same mistake again in 2020.
As the streets boil with rage, looking for social justice in the wake of the killing of George Floyd, the Black Lives Matter movement has brought forth voter importance as one of its main staples to bring an end to police brutality and start working to end racism in the United States.
Green knows the stakes, and he will ensure his voice is heard by voting this time around (one must assume he'll be voting for Joe Biden), as will many other African Americans who refrained from doing so four years ago. Green has joined LeBron James' voting rights initiative aimed at curbing voter suppression and encouraging young people to vote.
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