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by Prince Planet, February 26 2009 : 4:23pm
Sorry Rugger choke on this: Been what for 100 years? Try puting a coherent sentence together. Now I assume you mean voting for 100 years. I gave the 100 year mark as kind of a medial point in the history of the black vote. Read on: State constitutions protecting voting rights for blacks included those of Delaware (1776), [5] Maryland (1776), [6] New Hampshire (1784), [7] and New York (1777). [8] (Constitution signer Rufus King declared that in New York, “a citizen of color was entitled to all the privileges of a citizen. . . . [and] entitled to vote.”) [9] Pennsylvania also extended such rights in her 1776 constitution, [10] as did Massachusetts in her 1780 constitution. [11] In fact, nearly a century later in 1874, US Rep. Robert Brown Elliott (a black Republican from SC) queried: “When did Massachusetts sully her proud record by placing on her statute-book any law which admitted to the ballot the white man and shut out the black man? She has never done it; she will not do it.” [12] As a result of these provisions, early American towns such as Baltimore had more blacks than whites voting in elections; [13] and when the proposed US Constitution was placed before citizens in 1787 and 1788, it was ratified by both black and white voters in a number of States. [14] So now "Mr. black History Month", what you got to say now? I could have easily said that Black people have been voting for whites for OVER 200 YEARS! Why dont you brush up on YOUR black history! Moron!
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