Sunday, September 19, 2010

MY RESPONSE@ here ya go

"The powers within, wears a time in which places us it's plan. preparation 2 process..guidance ..wearing paths to discipline.. the stages built.. company u keep as focus living prestigious, God perserves ur organs..live..keeps life's management..., the birth of his likeness there of..as a result..HUMAN NATURE what's bigger..alienates it's conquest..loses nothing..from what u have become..connected..Create

~REMINDERS~

FOOD 4 THOUGHT
"I went to a funeral
this morning.
One of my buddies lost his
Mother she was 92.
She lived a long and great life.
Sometimes we've got
to be reminded that the Clock
on the wall only
turns one way forward
and if your moving backwards
life will leave you behind.
Nobody can live your life but you,
So live it the way you want.
and remember,
the clock is always ticking."

AskMe: How did African-Americans win the right to vote?

AskMe: How did African-Americans win the right to vote?: "As a result, few blacks in the south voted between 1870 and 1965. This was changed primarily as the result of Federal legislation in 1963 and 1964 insuring the right of blacks to vote, and efforts by the Johnson administration to enforce voting rights in the south. As a result, southern blacks vote overwhelmingly Democrat to this day."

AskMe: How did African-Americans win the right to vote?

AskMe: How did African-Americans win the right to vote?: "Legally speaking, the right to vote came with the 15th amendment. But socially speaking, it took the Civil Rights movement to make it a reality."

AskMe: How did African-Americans win the right to vote?

AskMe: How did African-Americans win the right to vote?: "In 1865, following the Civil War, African-Americans were given the right to vote and the '3/5ths clause' was rescinded. (14th and 15th Amendment). The clause relevant to your question is the 15th Amendment, article 1: ' The right... to vote shall not be denied or abridged... on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.' (the 'previous condition of servitude' meant that states couldn't deny the right to vote to those who had been slaves)."

African American - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Most African Americans followed the Jim Crow laws, using a mask of compliance to prevent becoming victims of racially motivated violence. To maintain self-esteem and dignity, African Americans such as Anthony Overton and Mary McLeod Bethune continued to build their own schools, churches, banks, social clubs, and other businesses.[17]"

AskMe: How did African-Americans win the right to vote?

"In 1789, African-Americans
were defined in the Constitution as 3/5 of a person for counting representation, and could not vote at all. (Constitution's Article 1, section 2, and elsewhere)"