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 Re: حق التصويت للافروأميريكان سوف ينتهي عام2007 (Re: Unabomber)
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The Illusion Of The Black Vote
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11-18-00
By Amadi Ajamu
The recent US presidential election has made it abundantly clear that Dred Scott's inheritance will be passed on from generation to generation. Black folks still have no rights that white folks are bound to respect. The Black voter turnout for this election was tremendous. In Florida, Blacks accounted for 16% of voters in the election and about 93% voted for Gore said David Bositis a researcher at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. Facing this substantial Black voting block, George W. Bush and his Klan made sure the fix was in.
Under the auspices of Florida Governor / George W.'s baby brother, Jeb Bush, the polling sites in Florida became ground zero in the republican party's struggle for the presidency. The NAACP reported several election irregularities such as roadblocks set up within a few hundred yards of voting places in predominantly Black communities in Volusia County, where police asked Black males to get out of their cars and show identification; ballot boxes full of votes left behind in at least four predominantly Black Miami area schools-turned- polling-places; and Sheriff's deputies checking voter ID's said the race indicated on the card did not match the race of the person. Florida's election debacle actually revealed the true nature of the political dirty tricks directed toward the disenfranchisement of Black voters that has gone on for many years.
Yet, amid these gangster-like intimidation tactics, 2 recounts, and 19,000 "thrown out" Gore votes, George W. Bush is conducting himself as if he is the President of the United States and has arrogantly begun to select his cabinet. The smoke and mirrors arena of American democracy and electoral politics has been exposed once again. And Black people have been taken for a ride once again.
African people in the United States must come to terms with this historic and systemic reality. Our vote has been compromised on many levels through the years. The fundamental level being the Reconstruction era Fifteenth Amendment to the US Constitution which "guaranteed" the ex-slaves the "right" to vote. Many states sidestepped this amendment, the most notorious states used discriminatory voting criteria such as "grandfather" clauses, literacy tests and poll taxes in an effort to prohibit Black people from voting.
During the Black civil rights mass movement of the 1960's, the remedy to this racist practice came in the form of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The act was supposed to ensure Black people access to the voting booth, which had been systematically denied to us. It focused on regulating specific electoral procedures and practices in order to constitute "equal protection". The length to which this act has been maligned is phenomenal. Obstacles to the ballot range from the direct street thuggery we witnessed in Florida to the systematic legislative redrawing of congressional districts in Black neighborhoods which has effectively diluted our voting strength and diminished our prospects for effective representation.
As we enter the new millennium we must become more sophisticated in our analysis of the political, economic, and social system in the United States and its relationship to African people. The NAACP has predictably called for a federal investigation into the corruption in Florida. Again they have not come to terms with the true nature of the US government. Our vision can no longer be limited to the prescriptions of those who have relentlessly oppressed us - democrat and republican, state and federal.
Time and again the Black political voice in the United States has been violently stifled. The weapons of silence vary. Mis-education, poverty, prisons and drugs are all used to keep us politically and economically ignorant subjugated and dependent. We must begin to question the legitimacy of a ruthless system that undermines our development at every turn. We must dare ourselves to be self determining. Capable of establishing an independent domestic and foreign policy, strong and creative enough to build our own communities rooted in the love and respect of our people and our culture. More people must become involved in the day-to-day struggle for our human rights. It is time for a new kind of leadership and a new direction for our people.
Editor's note: The views expressed in this commentary are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Black World Today.
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| حق التصويت للافروأميريكان سوف ينتهي عام2007 | Ridhaa | 04-06-04, 07:59 AM |
| Re: حق التصويت للافروأميريكان سوف ينتهي عام2007 | فرح | 04-06-04, 08:06 AM |
| Re: حق التصويت للافروأميريكان سوف ينتهي عام2007 | Ridhaa | 04-06-04, 08:32 AM |
| Re: حق التصويت للافروأميريكان سوف ينتهي عام2007 | ABU QUSAI | 04-06-04, 08:40 AM |
| Re: حق التصويت للافروأميريكان سوف ينتهي عام2007 | قلقو | 04-06-04, 08:52 AM |
| Re: حق التصويت للافروأميريكان سوف ينتهي عام2007 | Ridhaa | 04-06-04, 04:56 PM |
| Re: حق التصويت للافروأميريكان سوف ينتهي عام2007 | mustafa mudathir | 04-07-04, 03:33 AM |
| Re: حق التصويت للافروأميريكان سوف ينتهي عام2007 | kamalabas | 04-06-04, 03:52 PM |
| Re: حق التصويت للافروأميريكان سوف ينتهي عام2007 | kamalabas | 04-06-04, 03:59 PM |
| Re: حق التصويت للافروأميريكان سوف ينتهي عام2007 | kamalabas | 04-06-04, 04:06 PM |
| Re: حق التصويت للافروأميريكان سوف ينتهي عام2007 | kamalabas | 04-06-04, 04:11 PM |
| Re: حق التصويت للافروأميريكان سوف ينتهي عام2007 | Ridhaa | 04-06-04, 04:50 PM |
| Re: حق التصويت للافروأميريكان سوف ينتهي عام2007 | kamalabas | 04-06-04, 05:37 PM |
| Re: حق التصويت للافروأميريكان سوف ينتهي عام2007 | kamalabas | 04-06-04, 05:56 PM |
| Re: حق التصويت للافروأميريكان سوف ينتهي عام2007 | kamalabas | 04-07-04, 02:47 AM |
| Re: حق التصويت للافروأميريكان سوف ينتهي عام2007 | Unabomber | 04-07-04, 08:54 AM |
| Re: حق التصويت للافروأميريكان سوف ينتهي عام2007 | Ridhaa | 04-07-04, 09:43 AM |
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