for real,my peoples, more blood shed and more prisons coming up,well my peoples,time for some rbg love, starting put that souljah work for your community,because the luminatis havea plan for america,and we afrikan souljahs have to be ready for revolution or accept the consquences and not complain, *waving fists up in the air* **** bush,**** kerry!blkafroower

well! what is to be expected,tell me,america is ambushed and all people want to do is talk about their slave master,which slave master is more benevolent than the other,nobody wants to do anything about,well then you have to suffer the consequences, this is the UNITED SNAKKES OF AMERIKKKA! THEsmoking-devilhas another term so,there will be more bloodshed coming up and the death toll will rise!

my sister,theblackestgirl,join the all african peoples revolutionary party in atlanta,they havea chapter there,i hear ya da black one, i can see more carnage in the streets,more blood,the beast is gonna cause havoc worldwide,we have to embrace now for the worse,the blackestgirl,iam feeling your call,believe me, we afrikan souljahs have to show support for the international struggles around the globe,meanwhile political prisoners languish behind prison walls,kerry punked out and now bush has his ways,time for us,to pull together and support each other,it is time da blackest one,for AFRICAN LIBERATION DAYblktypeblkafroower

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I am Black I Live In America and will say this it alarms me when speaking with brothers who have no facts whatsoever vote for a party that is pimping them like alley tramps. I have been on the CBO & GAO mailing list for the last 16 years and know that when most people speak in support of the democractic party that they are only saying what some one has told them and has no facts to back up their ignorant statements and will turn into fierce , ferocious vicious savages because of their lack of knowledge on the subject and will kill you if you don't let them win the argument.

Can someone tell me when African-Americans first gained the right to vote?

[align=left]The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in 1863, and finally Black people were considered citizens. Still Blacks did not legally have the right to vote. That changed in 1870 when the 15th Amendment was ratified, giving Black men the ballot. But racism was still rampant, and some White Americans instituted unfair tactics that made it difficult, if not impossible for Blacks to exercise that right. Many states instituted literacy tests, that were designed to declare even the most voracious African American readers illiterate. New York, Pennsylvania and Florida created laws that required Blacks to pay voting taxes that most newly freed slaves could not afford. Other states had property requirements that Blacks, who were not allowed to own property during slavery, could not meet. There were of course, White people who didn’t own land, couldn’t afford the voting tax, or couldn’t pass a literacy test. But these “requirements� were designed to keep Blacks from voting, not Whites. So to make sure White people were not eliminated from the political process, seven southern states enacted the Grandfather Clause. The Grandfather Clause stated that anyone who was legally allowed to vote before the Civil War, and any of the ancestors were exempt from these new voting “requirements.� That meant these requirements did not apply to Whites. But they did apply to Blacks.
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[align=left]The Grandfather Clause was found unconstitutional and outlawed in 1910. But racist Whites found a way to keep Blacks away from the polls. Intimidation tactics, which had been used even during the time of the Grandfather Clause, became more common. Blacks who tried to vote were often beaten or even killed. But Black people refused to let this hold them back from political power. They began to organize and protest voting discrimination. The right to vote movement continued to grow, reaching a peak during the Civil Right Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Organizations such as the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), the Student Non Violent Coalition (SNCC), and the Congress Of Racial Equality (CORE) helped lead the charge, staging non-violent demonstrations that attracted national media attention and pressured the government to enforce and protect Blacks’ constitutional right to vote. In 1964 during what was called Freedom Summer, thousands of civil rights activists worked throughout the deep South to register voters and end Black political disenfranchisement. Finally, the Federal government acted when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act in 1965. This act allowed the attorney general to send federal examiners to oversee voter registration and elections. The effects of this and similar voting measures were tremendous. America soon saw a big increase in the number of registered Blacks voters, which in turn led to a greater number of Blacks elected to public office. According to CORE, between 1965 and 1990, the number of Black state legislators and members of Congress rose from two to 160. And the number of Black mayors rose from 81 in 1970 to 480 in 2001, according to Black Enterprise. When Jesse Jackson, ran for president in 1984, he urged African Americans to vote, affirming that “hands that once picked cotton can now pick presidents.� That year produced the highest-ever number of African American voters.
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[align=left]In America’s current Black political climate, the focus is not on obtaining the right to vote, but getting more Blacks to exercise that right. Many influential Black leaders have dedicated time and money in campaigns to increase the number of registered African American voters.
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[align=left]In the 2004 election, such hip-hop entrepreneurs as Sean “P.Diddy� Combs and Russell Simmons have followed Jesse Jackson’s lead. In their respective campaigns “Get Out The Vote� and the “Hip Hop Summit� Combs and Simmons travel the country teaching young people the importance of voting to determine who their next local and national leaders will be. The campaigns also focus on the great struggle for Black voting rights in America, and urge young people to exercise the right that their ancestors sacrificed so much to achieve.
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[align=left]1. The first Black public official was William A. Leidesdorf, who was named sub-consul to the Mexican territory of Yerba Buena (now San Francisco) in October 1845. In September 1847, he was elected to the San Francisco town council.
2. John Mercer Langston, (ancestor of Langston Hughes) was elected clerk of Brownhelm township, Ohio, becoming the first Black elected to public office in a settled community, in the spring of 1855.
3. In 1870, the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, giving Blacks throughout the United States the same voting rights as whites.
4. The first Black U.S. Senator was Hiram Rhodes Revels from Mississippi. He was elected in January 1870 to fill the unexpired term of (the previous White senator) Jefferson Davis.
5. The first Black governor was P.B.S. Pinchback, who became governor of Louisiana on December 9, 1872 when Governor H.C. Warmoth was impeached. Less than two months later, Pinchback relinquished the office saying “I now have the honor to formally surrender the office of governor, with the hope that you will administer the government in the interests of all the people.�
6. The first Black to serve a full term as a U.S. senator was Blanche Kelso Bruce of Mississippi, who entered Congress on March 5, 1875.
7. In 1920 American women of all races gained the right to vote when the 19th Amendment was ratified.
8. Edward W. Brooke III, a Republican from Massachusetts, became the first popularly elected Black senator in 1966, and the first African American to serve in that body since Blanche K. Bruce nearly a century before.
9. In 1968 Shirley Chisholm became the first Black woman ever in the U.S. House of Representatives [/align]

Excellente, sconiers thanks for the information.

I think white America is coming to grips with what it has done to other races of people and are running scared.

The rest of the world is not going to war with us because we have oversteped and steped on people of color and the allies knowit is to costly a war to fight and not theirs.



White America is not so quick to call us ******s or insult us after the attack on the United States on 9/11 by people of Color.



But what they don't say but do still lets me know that they are still intent on misusing people of Color the new ******s are Mexican Americans (Illegals) without a green card.

11/5/04

Dear Friends,

Ok, it sucks. Really sucks. But before you go and cash it all in, let's, in
the words of Monty Python, 'always look on the bright side of life!' There
IS some good news from Tuesday's election.

Here are 17 reasons not to slit your wrists:

1. It is against the law for George W. Bush to run for president again.

2. Bush's victory was the NARROWEST win for a sitting president since
Woodrow Wilson in 1916.

3. The only age group in which the majority voted for Kerry was young adults
(Kerry: 54%, Bush: 44%), proving once again that your parents are always
wrong and you should never listen to them.

4. In spite of Bush's win, the majority of Americans still think the
country is headed in the wrong direction (56%), think the war wasn't worth fighting (51%), and don't approve of the job George W. Bush is doing (52%). (Note to foreigners: Don't try to figure this one out. It's an American thing, like Pop Tarts.)

5. The Republicans will not have a filibuster-proof 60-seat majority in the
Senate. If the Democrats do their job, Bush won't be able to pack the
Supreme Court with right-wing ideologues. Did I say "if the Democrats do
their job?" Um, maybe better to scratch this one.

6. Michigan voted for Kerry! So did the entire Northeast, the birthplace of
our democracy. So did 6 of the 8 Great Lakes States. And the whole West
Coast! Plus Hawaii. Ok, that's a start. We've got most of the fresh water,
all of Broadway, and Mt. St. Helens. We can dehydrate them or bury them in
lava. And no more show tunes!

7. Once again we are reminded that the buckeye is a nut, and not just any
old nut -- a poisonous nut. A great nation was felled by a poisonous nut.
May Ohio State pay dearly this Saturday when it faces Michigan.

8. 88% of Bush's support came from white voters. In 50 years, America will
no longer have a white majority. Hey, 50 years isn't such a long time! If
you're ten years old and reading this, your golden years will be truly
golden and you will be well cared for in your old age.

9. Gays, thanks to the ballot measures passed on Tuesday, cannot get married
in 11 new states. Thank God. Just think of all those wedding gifts we won't
have to buy now.

10. Five more African Americans were elected as members of Congress,
including the return of Cynthia McKinney of Georgia. It's always good to
have more blacks in there fighting for us and doing the job our candidates
can't.

11. The CEO of Coors was defeated for Senate in Colorado. Drink up!

12. Admit it: We like the Bush twins and we don't want them to go away.

13. At the state legislative level, Democrats picked up a net of at least 3
chambers in Tuesday's elections. Of the 98 partisan-controlled state
legislative chambers (house/assembly and senate), Democrats went into the
2004 elections in control of 44 chambers, Republicans controlled 53
chambers, and 1 chamber was tied. After Tuesday, Democrats now control 47
chambers, Republicans control 49 chambers, 1 chamber is tied and 1 chamber
(Montana House) is still undecided.

14. Bush is now a lame duck president. He will have no greater moment than
the one he's having this week. It's all downhill for him from here on out --
and, more significantly, he's just not going to want to do all the hard work
that will be expected of him. It'll be like everyone's last month in 12th
grade -- you've already made it, so it's party time! Perhaps he'll treat the
next four years like a permanent Friday, spending even more time at the
ranch or in Kennebunkport. And why shouldn't he? He's already proved his
point, avenged his father and kicked our ass.

15. Should Bush decide to show up to work and take this country down a very
dark road, it is also just as likely that either of the following two
scenarios will happen: a) Now that he doesn't ever need to pander to the
Christian conservatives again to get elected, someone may whisper in his ear
that he should spend these last four years building "a legacy" so that
history will render a kinder verdict on him and thus he will not push for
too aggressive a right-wing agenda; or b) He will become so cocky and
arrogant -- and thus, reckless -- that he will commit a blunder of such
major proportions that even his own party will have to remove him from
office.

16. There are nearly 300 million Americans -- 200 million of them of voting
age. We only lost by three and a half million! That's not a landslide -- it
means we're almost there. Imagine losing by 20 million. If you had 58 yards
to go before you reached the goal line and then you barreled down 55 of
those yards, would you stop on the three yard line, pick up the ball and go
home crying -- especially when you get to start the next down on the three
yard line? Of course not! Buck up! Have hope! More sports analogies are
coming!!!

17. Finally and most importantly, over 55 million Americans voted for the
candidate dubbed "The #1 Liberal in the Senate." That's more than the total
number of voters who voted for either Reagan, Bush I, Clinton or Gore.
Again, more people voted for Kerry than Reagan. If the media are looking for
a trend it should be this -- that so many Americans were, for the first time
since Kennedy, willing to vote for an out-and-out liberal. The country has
always been filled with evangelicals -- that is not news. What IS news is
that so many people have shifted toward a Massachusetts liberal. In fact,
that's BIG news. Which means, don't expect the mainstream media, the ones
who brought you the Iraq War, to ever report the real truth about November
2, 2004. In fact, it's better that they don't. We'll need the element of
surprise in 2008.

Feeling better? I hope so. As my friend Mort wrote me yesterday, "My
Romanian grandfather used to say to me, 'Remember, Morton, this is such a
wonderful country -- it doesn't even need a president!'"

But it needs us. Rest up, I'll write you again tomorrow.

Yours,

Michael Moore
MMFlint@aol.com
http://www.michaelmoore.com

Its undeniable fact that outside interest in US elections has always been keen, but it has never been this intense. Put it down to satellite television and the Internet – as well as the last four years of President George W. Bush. winning the presidency as he did via a US Supreme Court ruling instead of through the ballot box in 2000, Bush limped on with lame-duck unease until the attacks of September 11, 2001.and no one doubts that changed his entire presidency and he jumped at the chance to lead his mourning, scared and angry people.

It is, however, ironic that we care so much about the US when we so often badly let down our own countries. For example, Africa has just a handful of functioning democracies. The continent’s enormous mineral wealth has been brazenly pilfered for the exclusive benefit of dictators and a coterie of sycophants from Libya to Zimbabwe; from Cameroon to Kenya.

as a continent, Africa has dismally failed even in the most basic task of maintaining human dignity. Life is so cheap that only the most heinous murders (the dead better be in their millions like in Rwanda) get any press, let alone any sympathy. Moreover, contests for power almost seem to be about more than just leadership. Africans also have this kind of optimism and there is no doubt we love who we are. The BBC recently commissioned a survey of 7,500 people in 10 African countries that revealed that a staggering 90 per cent were very proud to be African. The Pulse of Africa Survey also revealed that Africans are aware of the most pressing problems on the continent (Aids, poverty, unemployment, bad governance, etc).

most disturbing, was that a clear majority of those surveyed said that, given a chance, they would emigrate (confirming the World Bank estimates of 20,000 professionals leaving Africa every year!) South Africa was the only African country to get any decent reviews as a destination for the would-be immigrants. Meanwhile, Nigeria (sigh) did not get even one of the 7,500 votes on this question! No prizes for guessing why. In this survey also, the US was named as the country where most Africans would most love to settle.
I wonder if the new Bush administration will do more for Africa as I reallydont mind much if North Korea havea nuclear but I worry about a coffee farmer in Ethiopia will get a far deal for his produce let alone clean water for a village in Tanzania

do you think BUsh might do more? regardless of his trackrecord surely we need hope