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Tis the season to be bombarded by the sometimes obscene and truly mythological lies of politicians wishing you to do them a solid by casting your vote for them, but we, the sons and daughters of former slaves, need to consider that we are not really citizens of this country. How can this be? First, ponder this. Why is it that we have to have our voting status reviewed every 20 years. They sure as hell don't do that with white folks. Why? Whites have real voting rights. We have voting "privileges". As such, they are not inalienable and are subject to legal scrutiny and that is why every 20 years since the Voting Act of 1964, Congress has had to vote on if or not, we can continue to vote. Quite naturally, the bill is passed, but why is it that the vote about our 'vote' was even necessary if we were citizens. There are only two ways to become a US citizen: 1, Naturalization. All people who were free during the drafting of the US Constitution were deemed 'natural' citizens with all the rights and benefits accruing to them by way of the Constitution. Blacks, as slaves, were not protected by any provision of the Constitution and therefore were not deemed as citizens. I imagine it was legally hard to be a slave and a citizen at the same time. 2. Nationalization: This is what happens mainly on so called Independence Day where immigrants take the pledge of allegiance to this country and get sworn in as 'nationalized' citizens, but with the same rights as the natural-born citizens. Blacks as a collective, owing to slavery, could not be classed as natural citizens and since they were never nationalized with the ceremony of allegiance, that still left them stateless or homeless by definition even though we resided inside the confines of this country. To be fair, what occurred is that following Emancipation, along the time the Freedman Bureau was being established, a Great Registration was due to take place where we could be registered and given the opportunity to accept US citizenship. We had to choose. Know why" Well, the good old Constitution laid it out so that in the same way that 'servitude' could not be imposed on anyone, the same was true for citizenship which could not be imposed on another individual. In any event, The Great Registration never happened and the reason it never happened is because the brother put in charge of it was bribed with money and a white woman to not do it! He got missing, taking his white woman with him, so nothing happened. And here we are. But, as a consolation prize, the federal government became our daddy which means that while we are not really citizens, we were made "residents" of the federal government. Essentially, we are 14th Amendment babies. For clarity, what happened to the 13th Amendment which contained three sections. 1. EMANCIPATION. 2. NATIONALIZATION. COMPENSATION. Supposedly, we got so-called 'emancipated', but we never got the compensation, which was not to exceed one hundred dollars and for part 3, we were to be given land in what was then called The Great Interior. Number two and three never happened. Opponents in Congress vehemently opposed the compensation package although the Bill passed both the Senate and the House. Sections 2 and 3 became known as 'the concealed sections of the 13th Amendment which in, street terms, means we ain't get shit! Oh yeah, the government broke the law by imposing citizenship upon us. And if you believe that the 14th solved the problem, it really didn't. All the 14th did was to remove the impediments of slavery, the so-called "Benevolent Protector Clause" but the law had no teeth since it wasn't provide with the power to 'enforce' the BS they were putting on paper. However, despite all that------Next week is coming

Well I'm an American citizen at least until they give me my reparations check and a ticket back to Africa.

This little gem arrived and am about half way through.