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A. Making Amends
The 15th Amendment to the Constitution granted African American men (ie. African American Women would not be given this benefit until after the Women Sufferage Movement in 1848) the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.".
When Black people come out in huge numbers their vote has an unmistaken impact. However, without an FINANCIAL POWER BASE and a political plat form the right to vote is nothing more than a mechanical action that is sifted into the current system of politics.
For example, let's say most Black people are democrats and choose to endorse the democratic nominee for a presidential run. If Black people don't have a financial power base and a list of demands ready when they vote their votes means nothing in the long run. Because if that candidate wins its back to business as usual (ie. ignoring our needs in this country).
Let's say, on the other hand, for example that most Black people are republicans and choose to endorse the republican nominee for a presidential run. If those Black people do not have a FINANCIAL POWER BASE as well as a list of demands their vote means absolutely nothing. Because you see if that candidate is elected the political system returns right back to business as usual; and that vote becomes just a mechanical exercise.
B. Once this issue is settled there remains the harbanger of "The Electoral College"
The Electoral College’s Racist Origins
More than two centuries after it was designed to empower southern white voters, the system continues to do just that.
NOVEMBER 17, 2019
Wilfred Codri
"...Right from the get-go, the Electoral College has produced no shortage of lessons about the impact of racial entitlement in selecting the president. History buffs and Hamiltonfans are aware that in its first major failure, the Electoral College produced a tie between Thomas Jefferson and his putative running mate, Aaron Burr. What’s less known about the election of 1800 is the way the Electoral College succeeded, which is to say that it operated as one might have expected, based on its embrace of the three-fifths compromise. The South’s baked-in advantages—the bonus electoral votes it received for maintaining slaves, all while not allowing those slaves to vote—made the difference in the election outcome. It gave the slaveholder Jefferson an edge over his opponent, the incumbent president and abolitionist John Adams. To quote Yale Law’s Akhil Reed Amar, the third president “metaphorically rode into the executive mansion on the backs of slaves.” That election continued an almost uninterrupted trend of southern slaveholders and their doughfaced sympathizers winning the White House that lasted until Abraham Lincoln’s victory in 1860. ..."
The Electoral College’s Racist Origins
More than two centuries after it was designed to empower southern white voters, the system continues to do just that.
C. And if that weren't enough ---Black voters have to wait every 25 years --or whenever the racist government chooses-- to update an extention on their right to vote, smh
By - The Washington Times - Thursday, July 27, 2006
Voting Rights Act renewed for 25 years by president
President Bush yesterday signed a 25-year extension of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and vowed to “vigorously enforce” the law, which outlawed racist voting practices in the South and cleared the way for millions of black Americans to vote.
www.washingtontimes.com
D. The Initial "Right 2 Vote"
Since in 1866 the gub'ment passed a civil rights act why did it need to pass an act in 1965 as if the one in 1866 had no merit?
WE really need to read about that legislation, understand, then apply it just as Bryon Allen is doing in his case against Comcast and Charter!
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