The right to vote has been characterized as the most sacred symbol of American Democracy. Yet African?
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the right to vote should be a basic right for all citizens.
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Depends on which country you come from but generally speaking the meme of each person having human rights and one of those rights is not to be a slave was a significant factor.\n\nBut I think real democracy was a big part in getting slavery abolished
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You would think a lot of Americans think that way with the responses on these pages. The African American and Latino population alone could sway the vote in America. The question is which way are they going to turn after all of the abuse.
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More democratic?  I don't know what you mean.  The only think I can think of is the end of slavery.
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An African-American is a person born in Africa that becomes an American through the naturalization process as regulated by the United States Dept of Naturalization and Immigration, just like the ethnic terms Black, Colored, and Negro, they are all defined as a Negroid person born in Africa according to the United States Census Bureau, and several Federal Courts and Laws. The academic definitions have been altered or eliminated since 1989 to misleading define Afrimericans, but these academic definitions don’t have the value as do the legal definitions, and the Afrimerican Word and definition is the only term/word that accurately, academically, legally, and politically describe and define Afrimericans.
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Every society has both history and culture. However, black Americans have their original roots in various parts of Africa and their distinctive culture in America is relatively young and has developed according to the area or part of America where they ended up during and after the abolition of slavery.  African Americans who's roots are found in Haiti or the Carribean for example would be vastly different to African Americans whose roots are found in Africa or the different countries in Africa. As a collective group though, the overiding image of black America is the image portrayed by Hollywood.
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Confederate Flag was part of American history. Duh
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Nothing.  It's a right, but it's not mandatory.\n\nBut you really should vote.
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One form of voting restriction aimed specifically at African Americans was the Grandfather clause that allowed men to register to vote only if they could have voted in 1867 (before African Americans were allowed to vote in the South) or descended from an 1867 voter. This excerpt from the Louisiana law of 1898 was typical of many such restrictions. The cumulative effect of the different restriction efforts was to reduce overall voting levels by more than a third and black voting rates by almost two thirds. \nIf you have more questions about this, you can look at this link:  http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5352
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~Suffrage and representation.
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The most important benefactor to the voting process is the person doing the voting. There is a disconnect between those who don't vote and the society around themselves. It's a symptom of diminished self-image ..... ie., "My voice isn't important enough to count," vs. "Even if my voice isn't heard by the masses, I'll speak up." As for me, I hate politics, but I love our system. I don't believe in being a victim by default. Hey look, I spoke up. Does this count as a vote?
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Martin Luther King Jr., also protested for many African Americans to have the right to vote in certain southern states like Alabamba, Missississippi, Louisiana, etc. \nCheck out this source to find more information for your report.
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Democracy:  Everyone votes for everything.\n\nRepublic:  Voters choose representatives to vote on issues.
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As an African American, I'd like to quote an ex-slave named Frederick Douglass.  He made a speech which in part said:\n\n"What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sound of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants brass fronted impudence; your shout of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanks-givings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy -- a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour."
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Voting\nOne of the most important privileges of democracy in the United States of America is the right to participate in choosing elected officials through voting. As a Permanent Resident you can only vote in local and state elections that do not require you to be a US citizen. It is very important that you do not vote in national, state or local elections that require a voter to be a US citizen when you are not a US citizen. There are criminal penalties for voting when you are not a US citizen and it is a requirement for voting. You can be removed (deported) from the US if you vote in elections limited to US citizens.
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people of all religions, races etc vote and decide in america. The usa is NOT rulled by "zionists"
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suffrage\n\n    Definition:\n    (1) a vote given in deciding a disputed question or in electing a person to office\n    *(2) the right of voting : franchise; also : the exercise of such right\n\n    (* Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.)\n\n    Example sentence: The ratification of the 19th Amendment on August 26, 1920, ended a vigorous campaign for women's suffrage.\n\n    Did you know?\n\n        Why would a 17th-century writer warn people that a chapel was only for "private or secret suffrages"? Because since the 14th century, suffrage has been used to mean "prayer" (especially a prayer requesting divine help or intercession). So how did suffrage come to mean "a vote" or "the right to vote"? To answer that, we must look to the word's Latin ancestor, suffragium, which can be translated as "vote," "support," or "prayer." That term produced descendants in a number of languages, and English picked up its senses of suffrage from two different places. We took the "prayer" sense from a Middle French suffragium offspring that emphasized the word's spiritual aspects, and we elected to adopt the "voting" senses directly from the original Latin.