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The Constitution does not explicitly mention a citizen's right to vote. Beginning in 1776, citizens directly elected House of Representatives members. However, it wasn't until 1913 that the 17th Amendment allowed for direct election of Senators. The 14th and 15th Amendments, passed after the Civil War, gave African American men the right to vote. But it wasn't until 1920 that the 19th Amendment gave women the vote. To this day, Americans do not directly elect the President of the United States, but indirectly through the Electoral College.
The original Constitution and Bill of Rights, ratified in 1787, left it to the states to determine who could vote. In 1776, all white men who owned property were eligible. In some states, freed Black slaves and women who owned property and could also vote (married women were disenfranchised because they could not own property). But by 1821, states rescinded minority’s and women’s rights. Both before and after the 1776 Declaration of Independence, Jews, Quakers, and Catholics were all excluded from voting and holding office. Laws varied from state to state. It is estimated that only 10% of the total population were eligible to vote in 1800.
Following the Civil War, despite the passage of the 15th Amendment, jurisdictions passed Jim Crow laws throughout the country to limit African Americans' full participation in political, cultural, and economic parts of life. Often they had to pass literacy tests or pay poll taxes to vote. These methods were so successful, only 3% of African Americans of voting age registered to vote in 1940. It wasn't until the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that Congress banned literacy tests as a requirement for voting. And the law gave the federal government oversight over elections in areas of the country, especially in the South, where discrimination was most prevalent (the Supreme Court struck down this provision in 2013). Finally, in 1966, the Supreme Court ruled poll taxes were unconstitutional.
Today, many states make voting is as easy as possible. Seventeen states and the District of Columbia have automatic registration. And thirty-eight states and DC have some form of early voting. However, intimidation, disinformation, purging of registered voters, voter ID laws, limited early voting, and eliminating voting rights of convicted felons still continue to suppress the vote, more often than not, along racial lines.
In recent times, the Republican Party has been very active in these suppression efforts. Since there are more registered Democrats and the demographics of the country are changing with the influx of new minority voters, the GOP knows the numbers are not on their side. Although not only Republican, state legislatures often gerrymander Congressional districts to limit minorities' political impact.
During the coronavirus pandemic, many states are going to mail-in voting to reduce person-to-person contact at the polls. Support for this method is falling along partisan lines. Conventional wisdom suggests, the more votes cast, the more likely Democrats will win as mail-in voting will make it safer and easier to cast ballots. So, Republican-run states are taking efforts to make it harder to vote by mail. Donald Trump has called the practice "corrupt." He has even admitted that if everyone voted by mail, "you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again." The fact is, there appears to be no advantage to either party when mail-in voting is an option. Instead, it increases participation of those who might not ordinarily vote, be they Republicans or Democrats. Despite this, GOP leadership continues to oppose voting by mail, along with its other "tried and true" ways to suppress voter participation.
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Junsheng Gallery
Zhangjiajie
Hunan, China
Li Junsheng is the original creator of sandstone painting. He spent more than 20 years to research and create, made the painting flourishing. The people all around the world expressed surprise.
Jun Sheng Painting is a new kind style which uses natural materials, like sand, stone, plants. It makes a breakthrough about drawing materials, developed from minority’s art and absorbs the other style’s advantages. He manifests the nature with natural things and depicts objects with same object.
The painting combines the grace of Chinese traditional painting, the freshness of watercolor, the dignity of oil-painting, the refinement of crafts, and the three-dimension effect of relief.
The painting mainly depicts his hometown’s scenery and custom. All concrete and abstract objects also be reflected in his works. The realistically or freehand drawing has been widely agreed.
“A fancy artwork is not constrained by materials and techniques, instead depending on the creator’s inspiration”
~Junsheng Gallery~
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The noose is a knot, normally made from a small-diameter rope, that is often used by campers and hunters to catch small game. The noose has also traditionally been known as a suicide method; however the actual knot associated with this is the Hangman's knot, which is also known as the 'hangman's noose'.
In 2007, there were several incidents involving nooses at the University of Maryland and Columbia University. The Maryland incident took place at a dorm in front of a minority's window. The Columbia incident took place at a professor's door.
In 2007, in Jena, Louisiana, a group of black teens fought a white teen who angered one of the members the weekend prior.A year earlier students hung nooses from a tree. While the school board dismissed this as a prank it raised racial tensions until the attack. The fight became a court case when the 6 black teenagers were arrested and charged for the fight. They are known as the Jena Six.
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Following a rash of cases involving nooses, the state Legislature Monday (10/22/2007) moved toward making it a felony to display the symbol of lynchings in the Old South in a threatening manner. 'We won't tolerate this, ' said Sen. Dean G. Skelos, a Long Island Republican who sponsored the measure that passed Monday in the Senate. 'There is no place for racism and intimidation in America.'
Terre Haute, IN.10-25-2007 A noose was found in a tree on the campus of Indiana State. ISU police informed the FBI, who will look into possible 'hate crime' violations.'A noose is a symbol of America's oldest form of domestic terrorism, ' said Hilary O. Shelton, director of the NAACP's Washington office. 'It was held up as an example to show that whoever you are, you could be taken this way.'
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Dangling rope
Dangling hope
The noose
A present
For colored abuse
A gift
He dare not refuse
Being born
As children of a lesser
God he has nothing to lose
Just a neck to deduce
In a world of hate
Discoloured truce
What you sow
Is what you produce
Being the downtrodden
Underdog colored slime
Is no excuse
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Zhaoxing is a pretty Dong minority town nestled in a valley a long way away from anywhere. It's full of old wooden buildings, wind and rain bridges, and drum towers, and surrounded by beautiful scenery. It's had its share of government sponsored "Chinese Minority Village" makeover, but still remains pretty authentic. Once a year, they hold a very popular show, right after dusk, to celebrate the minority's heritage and wish for a good harvest. This was one of my favorite stops along my route to discover the ethnic minorities from southern China.
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This is an indigenous minority's "chomkaa," or highland rice field. These indigenous people are subsistence farmers, practicing slash-a-burn rotational agriculture. Over the last month they have spent most of their time clearing and burning to prepare the ground, waiting for the monsoons to bring rain to allow planting.
Each family builds a little house, just like this one, in the middle of their field. When it's time to plant they will move from their village house to their field house, to guard their crops until harvest time.
Every couple of years, they will move on to clear a new plot and build a new little house, leaving the old land to lie fallow for a few years. The thousand-year-old cycle begins again...
Taken in Ratanakiri, Cambodia.
This is the more traditional pose for the Pipa Fairy dance. Apparently, this dance traced its roots back to the Tang dynasty.
Quoting from www.atlantachinesedance.org/Tang_dance99.html
"Based on the Dunhuang murals of the Tang Dynasty, the Gansu Song and Dance Ensemble Group created and performed a spectacular classical dance Siluhuayu (Along the Silk Road). The story took place in Hexi Corridor in the Tang Dynasty. Enus, a Persian merchant, came to China for trade. Magic-brush Zhang, a painter, saved him in a sandstorm. Five years later, Enus paid a large sum of ransom to redeem Yingniang, Zhang's daughter, when he learned that Yingniang was kidnapped to an acrobatic troupe. With his acrobatically trained daughter and dancer, the happy family reunion excited Zhang a trend of thoughts in his paintings. Among his imaginations were the graceful dance of Fantanpipa (Reverse Playing Chinese Guitar) and the Dance of the Lotus Fairies. The dance Fantanpipa depicts a beautiful fairy playing her pipa (Chinese guitar) freely in the sky. Sometimes, she is like a dragon and other times, wild geese taking off from the ground, spreading its wings and flying away. Imitating these animals and many more and mythical creatures, the fairy brings the audience to a Dunhuang world. In the Dance of the Lotus Fairies, childlike fairies hide in lotuses and joyously pop out to dance when the petals open."
Check out the URL above for a picture of the original painting found in the Dunhuang at Cavern No. 148 in the Mogao Caves.
- See Reference: Wang Kefen, "The History of Chinese Dance," Foreign Languages Press, Beijing, China, First edition, 1985.
New Voices Panel I: Human Rights - By Rachel VanLandingham
Professor Dinah Shelton, George Washington University Law School, opened this engaging panel by highlighting the strand of commonality tying the four disparate presentations together: progress in the development of human rights norms, from the re-characterization of anti-corruption as an inherent human right, to the amazing progress demonstrated by African tribunals regarding indigenous rights.
Chelsea Purvis from Yale Law School Minority Rights Group International, London, provided compelling reasons why Africa should be considered a generator of human rights law instead of simply a recipient, one primarily in the breach. Her support included the Maputo Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights and its vanguard prohibitions of verbal and economic violence against women. She also highlighted its unique balancing of the positive role culture plays in women’s lives with the protection of their economic and social rights. Ms. Purvis further pointed to the groundbreaking decision of the Kenyan Endorios case and it expansion of indigenous rights to demonstrate how litigation can move human rights law beyond particular treaty origins, and concluded with examples of the international human rights community’s failure to fully engage with such progressive African human rights models.
Professor Katherine Young, Australian National University School of Law, outlined a new paradigm for considering economic and social rights, one in which they function as focus points for value-based problem solving. She detailed how municipal courts from the “global south” have approached judicial enforcement of economic and distributive rights, distinguishing these approaches via an innovative framework of typologies ranging from conversationalist to peremptory. Professor Young described how a “catalytic court” such as in South Africa can be quite responsive when facing distributive contestations, compared to the “detached court” model demonstrated in the United Kingdom.
Professor Andy Spalding, University of Richmond School of Law, posited that freedom from corruption should be viewed as a new human right rather than in its traditional garb as a means to protect other rights. He highlighted the Cold War genesis of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), and its original goal to promote liberal values in other states by ensuring the conduct of “ethical business.” He contrasted this focus with today’s corporate governance approach to bribery and corruption, recommending a return to a values-based foreign policy perspective. Pointing to the lack of fear engendered in corporate America by the Alien Tort Statute, Professor Spalding concluded that the FCPA instead has been and will continue to be the principle mechanism policing corporate human rights violations overseas.
Professor Moria Paz, Stanford Law School, highlighted an interesting disjunction between treaty rhetoric (specifically in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights) regarding the protection of linguistic diversity and judicial enforcement of the same. Drawing from her analysis of over 200 European communication cases, she found that the protection of a minority’s language was not treated as a fundamental human right. Rather, linguistic accommodation was only transitional to assimilation into the political body and marketplace. Professor Paz questioned whether this was a negative result, given that treatment of linguistic diversity as an inviolable right, irrespective of cost, problematically fails to appropriately balance other interests in reaching a just result.
In the words of one appreciative audience member, this panel truly did provide “cutting-edge stuff” indeed.
Rachel VanLandingham is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Stetson University College of Law, where her scholarly interests include the intersection of international humanitarian law and U.S. criminal law, as well as sexual assault in the military.
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A very energetic Tibetan Dance. It has a little of the Irish River Dance in it. Probably the best number of the night.
ps - Unfortunately, no flash photography was allowed and it was too dark to freeze action, so, subjects were a little blur due to the dance.
Xijiang Miao Village, also named 'China's Miao stockade village of one thousand households’, is supposed to be the largest Miao Village in China. A continuous row of houses spreads in line of the hilly area. These houses are unique and grand under sunshine and verdant trees.
Researchers believe the village is the 'living fossil' to study Miao ethic minority's history and traditional culture.? Senior Miao women wear their long dark hair coiled up in neat buns on the top of their heads while the younger Miao women prefer to adorn them with large colorful plastic or bone combs and pretty flowers. Each woman has her traditional clothing, head dress and other jeweler which is worn at special festivals throughout the year.
Related Site:
www.chinatourguide.com/guizhou/One_Thousand_Household_Mia...
The Miao people's silver ornaments are second to none, both in terms of quantity and variety. Miao women's festive attire includes a variety of silver decorations, weighing as much as 15 kilos! The purpose of wearing all this silver is of course primarily aesthetic, but it also shows affluence and is thought to wards off evil spirits.
While usually worn by women, theMiao ethnic minority's silverware is made by men. Categorized by functions, there are hats, clothing, necklaces, bracelets, and rings. The level of craftsmanship ranges from relatively basic styles seen in some of the bracelets and neckbands to very delicate skilful work used to make silver bells, flowers, birds, butterflies, needles, bubbles, chains, and earrings.
This photo was shot during the period of Miao People's Sisters Festival. It is held on the 15th day of the third lunar month, and the Miao celebrate it with numerous traditional activities and customs.
My Guizhou photo tour for the Miao Sister's Meal Festival, pls visit www.chinatourguide.com/blog/?p=87
it's typical miao's village, the pagoda is where the villagers discuss major issues concerning the whole village.
Ha Sa Ke Minority's Ha Sa Ke Girl dance. My suspicion is that Ha Se Ke Minority is probably a Turkic/Uyghur/Kazakh minority based on the costume.
Mao's representatives went and visited Minority areas of Yunnan Province and "welcomed" them into the PRC community. According to the museum, the group was celebrated, and the minority's were glad to be a part of the new "liberated" country. This banner commemorates this trip. It states the togetherness of the peoples in different languages, first Chinese (of course), then Tibetan, then Yi language, then the last three that I can not recognize. Please comment below if you know what they are.
The South African activist and former president Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) helped bring an end to apartheid and has been a global advocate for human rights. A member of the African National Congress party beginning in the 1940s, he was a leader of both peaceful protests and armed resistance against the white minority's oppressive regime in a racially divided South Africa. His actions landed him in prison for nearly three decades and made him the face of the antiapartheid movement both within his country and internationally. Released in 1990, he participated in the eradication of apartheid and in 1994 became the first black president of South Africa, forming a multiethnic government to oversee the country's transition. after retiring from politics in 1999, he remained a devoted champion for peace and social justice in his own nation and around the world until his death in 2013 at the age of 95. ift.tt/1cWiwfl
This dance probably originated in the North East part of China and most probably share a lot with the Korean culture. Their tranditional costume looks very Korean like. This is the Chao Xian Minority's Beautiful Ladies in the Countryside dance.
A Kakai (Yarsan) man stands in front one of the religious minority's temples destroyed by Islamic State militants.
This dance I believe originated in the North East part of China and probably shares a lot with the Korean culture. Just their costumes itself gives this fact away. This is the Chao Xian Minority's Celebration of Spring dance.
Here's a shot from the Man Minority's 7 Inch Shoes dance. For those who are more familiar with Chinese culture and history, you will notice that the costume is from the Manchu culture. Manchus were the last and final dynasty in China (the Qing dynasty) before it becoming a republic and then communist. Also, "The Last Emperor" was a biopic about the life of Puyi, the last Qing emperor.
This is part of some selected scenes in The Peacock Princess drama (a Dai Minority traditional drama).
Please note the shadows on the screen, notice the peacocks?
The opening act already completely captivated us. This is the Dai Minority's Little Peacock in the Forest dance.
Here's a male role in the Korean dance where he swings his head around and around to flick the ribbon attached to his hat in a circle. It was quite fascinating to watch.
The quality of its universities is one of the keys of the power of USA as nation, leading all listings worldwide, they are true temples, as modern monasteries. But its excellence is not proportional to the rest of education (I think in the suburbs poor minorities's schools b.e.), its has an inmigration of excellence: in the more than 300 Nobel Prizes who have received USA, nearly 70 have been contributed by immigrants. The immigration of top brains impact the quality not only of science and knowledge in general, also in the dynamics of academic standards and identity of colleges, institutes, teams and universitary groups.
To visit in Manhattan the university of Robert K. Merton, the Sociologist, in the Morningside Heights, NY, was an obligation for me.
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El poder que posee EEUU como nación se sustenta en gran medida en la calidad de sus universidades, que encabezan todos los listados mundiales. Verdaderos templos modernos. Pero su altos niveles de excelencia no son proporcionales al resto de la educación; sus universidades reciben la más formidable de las inmigaciones: de sus casi 320 premios nóbeles recibidios, más de 70 han sido obtenidos por inmigrantes. Un sabio o científico destacado pasa a ser parte del patrimonio imperdible de unidades académicas y disciplinas, marca indeleblemente la identidad, los estandares y el prestigio de una Universidad.
Visitar en Manhattan una universidad con más galardonados con el Premio Nóbel, y también el lugar de trabajo de Robert K. Merton, era visita obligada para mi.
Again, Dai Minority's Spring Blossom. One of my favourite dance in the programme. Both, the costume and dance moves had some South East Asian influence in it (looks a little Thai).
A very energetic Tibetan Dance. It has a little of the Irish River Dance in it. Probably the best number of the night.
ps - Unfortunately, no flash photography was allowed and it was too dark to freeze action, so, subjects were a little blur due to the dance.
Here's another set of selected scenes from the Dai Minority's The Peacock drama. This is called the Veil Dance and takes place at the Palace of the Peacock Kingdom.