African American inequalities of rights and civil abuses have been part of our country’s infamous history even before the birth of our nation. Those unfortunate discriminatory practices followed their “slave” status, even when the “negro” was freed from slavery or involuntary servitude as stated in the Thirteenth Amendment, and ratified on December 6, 1865.
On July 28, 1868, the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified. The amendment grants citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States” which included former slaves who had just been freed after the Civil War.
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Many of the ideas for my blog What Does It Mean to be a Political Revolutionary?, came from Jonathan Mead’s “in inspiration, passion,” website: http://paidtoexist.com/how-to-start-a-revolution/. The blog he wrote was entitled How to Start a Revolution and was posted on his website on May 21, 2009.
He starts out his blog by stating: “I’ve found the secret to being excited about waking up every day, and I’ll tell you what it is right now.
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A revolution in this country is not imminent. However, unless the gross injustices are not addressed, where there is more equality of opportunity among all social classes, in addition to fairer representation of various social classes in our Congress, or if not represented, at least their needs are being expressed and acted upon by our government, ultimately, a revolution of some dimension will result.
Although I recognize that currently, there are more pressing problems that Congress needs to address,
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