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State laws that ban convicted felons from voting are having the unintentional (or is it intentional?) effect of disenfranchising one in eight African-American men.

An estimated 5.3 million Americans are denied the right to vote based on their felony convictions, 4 million of whom are out of prison. About a third of them are black, including 13 percent of all African-American men.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/SheFly69/ SheFly69

    Something else the WM uses to keep the Black man down.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/doing_me74/ doing_me74

    disenfranchising that’s the key word right their so think about it.If that’s the case how does that affect black women toward black men in the political arena think about that.If this is true I see war between the sexes as a political plan devised to destroyed families etc.Thanks for telling me this.So you see how this ties into the game simple take away the black man power an give it to the women by giving the black man drugs to sell etc.But I heard also that their are states were if you have felony they still let you vote too so it can work in our favorite too.I guess in some case an this is just my opinion even tho I don’t vote because of my lack of trust of politics anyway.The American government aint meant to help blacks but separate.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/OrbitalFlow/ OrbitalFlow

    Sheesh, I thought this was solved with the 15th Amendment? Grow up America, seriously.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/StanleyMathis/ StanleyMathis

    The power is in the vote, and their strategy is to control the numbers by whatever means necessary.

    But with all that said, I’ve believed for a long while, now, that I could influence policies simply by speaking what’s on my heart and being fair and honest about the issues in my attempt to offer solutions.

    That’s a good enough vote for me, and it also counts in the hearts of those with the power and influence to do something about my concerns in our nation.

    Stanley Mathis,
    A Three Times loser

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/MR_NANASTROKER/ MR_NANASTROKER

    NOTE!
    THIS IS NOT FROM ME BUT FROM ANOTHER THAT POSTED THIS COMMENT BUT i FIND IT SOMEWHAT EFFECTIVE ON THIS POST

    WHITEY HAS TRIED TO HOLD US BACK SINCE WE FIRST LAID EYES ON THEM AND YET WE’VE BEEN MORE INNOVATIVE THEN THEY’VE BEEN, SLAVERY FOR CRACKERS AND BLACKS IN AMERICA LASTED FOR ABOUT 400 YEARS UNOFFICIALLY BUT BLACKS WERE NOT ALLOWED TO READ OR WRITE BUT STILL MANAGED TO CREATE THE MOST INNOVATIVE INVENTIONS OF THEIR TIME. THE MOST FASCINATING PART OF THIS IS THAT WE’RE ONLY 13% OF THE POPULATION IN AMERICA (ACCORDING TO THE CENSUS) AND WHITEY HAS BEEN IN POWER FOR AROUND 400 YEARS WHICH TELLS ME THAT THEY CAN’T COMPETE WITH US ON A CONSISTENT LEVEL WITHOUT HELP FROM CHINA AND EVERYBODY WITH ANY HISTORY OF INTELLIGENCE KNOWS THIS, THAT’S WHY THEY TRY SO HARD TO KEEP US OUT OF THE PICTURE BECAUSE WHEN THE PLAYING FIELD IS EVEN THE BLACKS WIN AND SOMETIMES IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE EVEN. CRACKERS PORTRAY THEMSELVES TO HAVE SUPER INTELLIGENCE AND HEROES OF THE WORLD *(LMFAO), BUT WHEN THE CURTAIN IS PULLED BACK AND THE TRUTH IS REVEALED THEY’RE IN THE BACK OF THE PACK WHEN IT COMES TO RESPECT AND INNOVATION THAT DOESN’T INCLUDE INGENIOUS WAYS OF KILLING SOMEBODY. THE CRACKER MEDIA WILL GIVE YOU THE IMPRESSION THAT BLACKS ARE IGNORANT AND LAZY BUT DON’T BE FOOLED, WE’VE BEEN AT THE FOREFRONT OF INNOVATION IN THIS COUNTRY AND AROUND THE WORLD FOR CENTURIES. BLACKS NEVER NEEDED WHITEY FOR ANYTHING *REMEMBER THAT* (THEY NEEDED US AND STILL DO).
    P.S THE CRACKERS INGENUITY HAS BEEN SURPASSED BY THEIR TREACHERY AND BARBARIC NATURE THROUGHOUT HISTORY. REMEMBER THEY INVENTED RACISM AND SLAVERY IN AMERICA.

    GOOGLE
    Michelle Alexander
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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/pecantan848/ pecantan848

    Did anyone ever consider that if these men weren’t out breaking the law in the first place they would retain the right to vote? My husband is black and a cop and he comes home every morning telling me stories about the dumb s**t that people are out doing. People want to make that money fast. I know Mcdonalds and Popeyes don’t pay that well but at least they are legal jobs. These men need to grow up and realize that there is no future in a life in the streets.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Babyface843/ Babyface843

    lol oh really?? They can’t vote cause of prison time? Sounds like a personal problem to me. Don’t do the crime and you won’t do the time..dum asses. Besides..voting doesn’t mean anything it’s just there to make yall feel like you doin somethin..lol voting hasn’t solved any problems

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/CoolTru/ CoolTru

    Response to Babyface843:
    The point is they HAVE done the time. They ought to be allowed a voice because they are still members of our society. The idea that voting does not mean anything is ludicrous at worst ignorant at best.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/owatts38/ owatts38

    Not everybody grows up with a fair chance for survival. One parent, disadvantage neighborhoods, and many more poor influences many of our black youth faces. I work with ex-offenders; many of them are young kids who were influence to walk the wrong way. For a site called Black Planet, it seems a lot of people who blog on this site hate Black people. The story is about people paying their debt and still paying for it. Well guess what, the state of Rhode Island lets their incarcerated prisoners vote from prison. Why am I mentioning this? This is the only state that has more white prisoners then minority prisoners. So stop hating on your own people and wake the f__K up. Blacks in this country are at a disadvantage, because a few make it, you begin to think everybody should make it.

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