Who should The African American Community vote for?
The African American Community is one that is heavily marginalised by the criminal justice system, by
systemic discrimination and face economic deprivation. In the upcoming elections, their votes do
matter, as they would decide which politician would represent their rights and their fight for equality.
The community is faced at a standstill in terms of voting. With no member of their community to
represent them as a nominee, they would have to choose between two prominent candidates. Hillary
Clinton, who is statistically the favourite but is said to not deserve the popularity as her husband did
quite come damage to the community in promoting discriminatory laws. Or to vote for Bernie Sanders,
who has
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first would be that Bernie Sanders advocates for mass reform of the justice system. In his opinion, The
US imprisons far too many people, a disproportionate percentage of African Americans. Rather than
investing more into confining people of various degrees of crime, even minor offenses which usually are
usually crimes of desperation, Bernie proposes we spend more on education, training, and jobs that will
reduce crime. He also believes in more transparency, mainly in law enforcement, where police officers
should be held accountable for their abusive practices. Bernie proposes that this can be done by
implementing the use of body cameras to keep officers in line. These are all policies that are reflective
of Bernie Sanders stance in believing that The African American is obviously marginalised and
victimised by the current justice system, as he stated during a press conference in South Carolina.
Moreover, the community should vote for Bernie Sanders based on his stances with regards to
education. Bernie is committed to providing affordable, quality education. Bernie has been a
Bernie cares about education, he plans to reduce class size to 18 children in grades 1-3. Bernie also plans to do away with fill-in-the-bubble standardized tests. He voted yes on protecting ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes ecosystems.
A vote for Bernie Sanders is a vote for free education, reasonably paying jobs, and universal healthcare. [I need to add another sentence right here]. There are many reasons why Bernie Sanders is the best candidate for president based on his policies on college, jobs, and healthcare.
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Bernie Sanders is socialist but is written down as a independent which is a big turnoff for most people. When people think of socialist they think of Lenin, Castro, and Stalin who were not the most pleasant of people. Sanders totally different then all of them though. First off he’s Jewish and these people don't seem Jewish. Second off he has not killed anybody like the people listed. And third is he has modern and past democratic views. He is a supporter of gay marriage and abortion which is modern democratic views. He wants the minimum wage raised which has been an ongoing fight for many years with republicans and democrats fighting over it. One more thing he's done is trying to reach out to our younger generation who is voting for the first time. In a New York Times article entitled “The Socialist Senator”, he visited South Burlington High School where he answer some question to some 6o kids. This is what you want in a president, who speaks at schools and answer question for them. In another New York Times Article, he states, “Doctors have told me about patients who died because they put off their medical visits until it was too late”(Sanders, 3). This proves a point that he does not want people to die. Now we can disagree that Sanders should or should not be president but what we can most definitely agree on is we don't want people to
The 2016 Presidential Campaign candidate, Bernie Sanders, believes in creating a better America. In proving to the American people, rich and poor, how great the country can be if all people vote for who is trusted best as future President of the United States. The political figures in government care about money and wealth, not the people. Bernard Sanders would be the best choice for President for the main reason that he is concerned about the issues in America that create inequality for the people. The issues addressed by this candidate will create social and economic equality.
right now and Bernie Sanders is going to help the world out by making health care a single-payer government, that means that the government sponsors the health care. Bernie states that the states without Obama Care right now, are going to need to figure out an overall budget for that state and will have to set it on their own (Desjardins). Another major major issue in the US right now is taxes and how the government is handling taxes in the US is not a good way to be handling the taxes. Bernie is going to make it cheaper for the middle class and poor class people to pay taxes (Klien). For the rich class people however, Sanders is going to make taxes more expensive.
The African-American community is comprised of 34 million people, and makes up approximately 12.8 percent of the American population (Barker, Jones, Tate 1999: 3). As such, it is the largest minority group in the United States. Yet, politically, the black community has never been able to sufficiently capitalize on that status in order to receive the full benefits of life in America. Today, African-Americans, hold less than 2 percent of the total number of elected positions in this country (Tate, 1994: 3) and the number of members within the community that actually partake in voting continues to drop. In spite of these statistics, as of 1984, a telephone survey found that 70
Sanders’ immigration policies. First, he wants to find a way to allow citizenship for illegal immigrants, however, he does not believe the United States should open their borders.
I chose Bernie sanders as the candidate that I would vote for. A couple of issues that I care about that Sanders also stands for are healthcare for all and same-sex marriage. Sanders position on everyone being able to have healthcare is supportive. In an interview with Ezra Klein of Vox, Sanders responded with, “Health care, to my mind, is a right of all people. That's what I believe. I think every man, woman, and child is entitled to health care”(1). He believes that healthcare should not be something that we have to qualify and fight for but that it should be our right to have good healthcare. He made a point by saying that despite having the affordable care act, we still have so many people that are still uninsured and underinsured while our country is paying almost double what any other nation faces (2). Sanders is for healthcare for all because he believes it’s our right to it despite our income and not be discriminated against for reasons such as our gender or previous health issues. He believes we shouldn’t be discriminated against just because we might have had a health issue that the insurance companies consider a higher risk of needing help later, which would mean
Senator Sanders plans to give each citizens access to universal healthcare so no citizen will be denied health and medicine. Throughout his political career he voted yes and no on bills going through Senate and he voted each time on bills that expanded healthcare or made it more affordable. He plans on taxing the rich at higher rates, same taxes from resolving the income inequality, and set forth a system of taxing through the stock system that will create billions over the course of a year (). These new taxes would benefit the middle and lower class because they would finally be able to receive healthcare that many of the poor have had to previously live without. New taxes sound like a bad thing, but in Bernie’s plans it would only affect corporations and the top 10%. These new taxes wouldn’t affect the average taxpayer in anyway resulting in more money out of your paychecks, but would affect them by giving them and every citizen free healthcare despite any poor financial
Up until the year 1870 African Americans could not vote in any election in American. (U.S. Voting Rights). In the past America has been making a lot of changes in our voting system’s equality. In the present, legally African Americans have the same rights as a white man does. In the future the rights will not get any better or worse. Throughout history The African American voting rights have improved to the present day and will stay the same in the near future.
Ever since the first African Americans came to Jamestown in 1619, getting along has never been easy. Even though there was 200 years of slavery until the prevail of the civil war and the abolition of slavery, most people forget that some African Americans were free during that time, but how free were they? Free African Americans in the Northern states were free, but had no rights based on the voting chart, Charles Mackay’s excerpt, and Charles Andrews excerpt. Out of the three regions in the North, black males could only vote in one of them. Mackay recognizes their “freedom”, but denies African Americans of their rights. Finally, Andrews who was the top of his class explains how there’s no place for his talent. Free African Americans may have had freedom, but not the freedom that white males had, and certainly not the rights they needed to fully function in society.
Black Americans of today need to register to vote and make use of their voting rights if they want to see a change to the current state of democracy. In the
African Americans political experiences have always been a silent cry, it was mentioned in class how when African Americans stand up for something it 's like giving a dog a bone. The minimum is done in some cases to make the problem quiet down. African Americans have a silent cry in the sense that people can see what they are dealing with but they won 't do anything about it. During the middle of the 20th century there were African Americans leaving the South in search of jobs ,to have a better life for their families and be in better circumstances. Desegregation of armies, which allowed more soldiers to fight in the war and go to war. This was a time that African Americans were wanting more and were tired of their circumstances. African Americans were
In reading the Aeneid I took a particular interest in the relationship that develops between Aeneas and Dido and how this relationship highlights the desires and roles that each gender may have had in this time period. For example it seems the male desire is to seek his kingdom while the female role seems to secure a partner. Dido and Aeneas in Book Four resemble the relationship that we see between Odysseus and Calypso in Book Five of the Odyssey. The departure of the two men in both books highlights the women’s perceptions of what their relationships were. Looking at this comparison it is interesting to see what drives each woman and man in these situations.