Wednesday, August 3, 2011

The Constitution: The Fifteenth Amendment

Giving slaves, indentures the right to vote.
Section 1. 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.
Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.[1]

No longer is the black man a fifth of a vote or a part of a man, he has a vote if he can get his butt to the poles without being killed or shot or both.   He also must make sure since he cannot read, he is registered and goes to the correct polling place which keeps changing. 

The amendment says the black man can vote.  Some of the tricks used then to deny that vote and still used today are redistricting the concentration of black votes to a large white majority area so the vote does not really matter.  Locating the voting booths a long distance from the black communities will keep the black vote low.  Complicating the voting process to confuse lower educated voters. 

The creativity is endless for those fascists that want to keep the masses down.

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