Demands For Voting Rights Reach The U.S. Territories!

The city of Hagatna. The city is the capital of the U.S. territory of Guam. The residents are U.S. citizens but are banned from voting in presidential elections. HBO's John Oliver pointed out that Guam has a high turnout of voters in their choosing of the nominee for the president. Unfortunately, they can't vote for the nominee. Five territories in the United States have longed for the right to be recognized but Congress is once again inept in doing so.

Republican governors and lawmakers are trying to pass stricter voting laws to keep Blacks and the poor away from the ballot box. Young voters aren't inspired to vote in elections. The candidates running aren't inspiring.

Donald Trump sucks most of the air out of the room. Republicans are feuding with one another.

Conservatives and concern trolls are trying to stop Hillary Clinton's momentum.

Bernie Sanders is getting name recognition and criticism.

The Congress is still unproductive. They can't even pass a bipartisan infrastructure bill. On July 31, the money dries up. Construction workers will lose their jobs and roads will not be completed. Gridlock will continue. Americans will be totally pissed off.

The 2016 U.S. Elections are coming. Many Americans will have a chance to vote. They will pick a successor to President Barack Obama. They will have an opportunity to pick a governor, their representatives and senators.

In the U.S. territories, the residents only elect a governor and a non-voting delegate for the U.S. House of Representatives. They vote in their local elections but no presidential elections.

It's a shame that even in the United States, we still have a long way to go before everyone is counted as equal.

There are five island territories under jurisdiction of the United States. They regard these as territories of the United States.

United States territories are any extent of region under the sovereign jurisdiction of the federal government of the United States.

American Samoa (pop. 55,000 capital Pago Pago)
Guam (pop. 138,000 capital Hagatna)
Northern Mariana Islands (pop. 54,000 capital Saipan Island)
Puerto Rico (pop. 4.5 million capital San Juan)
Virgin Islands of the United States (104,000 capital Charlotte Amalie)

About few months back John Oliver of Last Week Tonight on HBO explained why the need for voting rights doesn't often apply to African-Americans, the poor and 18-24 year old groups.

The flags of U.S. Territories. 1. Puerto Rico 2. Northern Mariana Islands 3. Guam 4. American Samoa 5. Virgin Islands

In these U.S. territories they are banned from voting in presidential elections.

Matter of fact, those born in American Samoa aren't American citizens. They are U.S. nationals. They must apply for a passport with a special documentation saying they are nationals. American Samoa has 55,000 residents living there.

American Samoa is located in the South Pacific Ocean. The territory has one of the largest recruitment of military enlistment. Those who fought for America have no legal right to call themselves U.S. Citizens. Some residents have considered petitioning for independence.

Congresswoman Amata Coleman Radewagen (R-AS) is a non-voting delegate for the House of Representatives. She is the first woman to serve for the U.S. territory of American Samoa. She is the first Republican to be elected. She and many of her constituents are considered U.S. nationals. They are not granted U.S. citizenship.

Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands are commonwealths. They are insular areas where the government advocates free association status. Given that these territories and residents are granted as U.S. Citizens, these territories are semi-independent and often times represented as a country and not a territory.

Puerto Rico, a semi-autonomous territory (regarded as a commonwealth) has a fiscal crisis and the U.S. Congress refuses to give aid to the island. Puerto Rico has over 4.5 million residents living there.

The United States offers assistance to the territories whenever its necessary. But expect it to be another partisan battle between the inept lawmakers who believe the key to balancing a budget is to cut the safety net.

The territories have a non-voting delegate who is assigned on a committee but are barred from general voting. These Representatives are not pleased that Congress failed them as well.

Any thoughts on this?

Do you believe that the Voting Rights Act should apply to the U.S. Territories?

Do you believe that its time for the United States to grant citizenship to the residents of American Samoa?

Conservative Outrage Over Dems Get Out To Vote Strategy!

If you're willing to allow unfiltered ignorance to reign in Washington, DC, vote for the insurgent. But if you want common sense  politics, vote for North Carolina senator Kay Hagan, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate. 

Conservatives are upset over the Democratic Senate Majority PAC using the "race card" to win.

Embattled Democratic senator Kay Hagan of North Carolina is relying on the advantages of early voting. Right now she's leading by 2 points in the polls and insurgent Thom Tillis is hoping to capitalize off the president's disappointing job approval in the state. Besides the president, the Tillis campaign got the biggest asshole on Loserville to help push out desperate votes.

That annoying conservative agitator was giving Tillis his last chance to get his racist right base out to vote. On the segment, that annoying agitator played clips of the Super Pac ad.



Then he went to bitching about Trayvon Martin, the "so-called" six to eight Black witness to back up Ferguson officer Darren Wilson, the shooter of unarmed Michael Brown and rehashing the old Southern Democrats.

He asked if Tillis was willing to condemn the ads. Of course Tillis was ready to respond to them.

Tillis would say that Barack Obama's policies aren't helpful to Black and the talk about what he may do if he wins the election. The usual promise everything but deliver nothing. Hagan done it too just to be fair.

Conservatives are so annoying. They really want Blacks, Hispanics and young voters to sit out these elections. Conservatives hope Republicans rally on their racist right base! With all the talk about  Black on White crime, illegal immigration, Ebola and ISIS, the Republicans are hoping to win the U.S. Senate on negativity.

They have no plan to bring jobs to Americans. They have no agenda to solve the economic gap between rich and poor. They want to cut the safety net. They just want to scream and yell! It's pathetic that when Democrats were in charge things were moving forward.

If it takes another thumping from Republicans to get the Democrats back to the minority, then so be it! The Democrats practically had the advantage. They managed to turnout a huge base. What went wrong?

And looking forward to Tuesday, the U.S. Senate chances are GOOD for Republicans. They have a 67% chance to take back the Senate.

And to make this clear, I am certainly not too thrill to have the inept opposition in power.

By the way, that annoying conservative agitator continues to ignore the Republicans playing the card.

If you haven't seen the Nebraska 2nd District House Race? It's not pretty. They pulled out the race card in this event. Not a peep from that annoying conservative agitator and Loserville.

Voter To Obama: Don't Mess With My Girlfriend!

Aia Cooper (left) and her boyfriend Mike Jones playfully mock President Barack Obama at a local voting precinct in Chicago. The president encourages Americans to early vote.

As I listened to the midday agitator of the racist right, he was talking about President Barack Obama being in Chicago. He was early voting, a common theme of his campaign. When he was voting at his local precinct when allegedly poll workers told him to "VOTE DEMOCRAT".

Then of course, Obama was talking to a resident and her boyfriend. The boyfriend playfully mocking the president to "not mess with his girlfriend".

Aia Cooper was not expected.

As he walked past the president’s voting booth, Mike Jones, Cooper’s boyfriend, told Obama, “don’t touch my girlfriend.”

“I said, I know you’re Mr. President, but don’t touch my girlfriend,” Jones said afterward.

Yep, Jones teased the president.

“I didn't know what to say. I was just shaking. I said ‘Oh boy, this is the president. What am I supposed to do?” Cooper said.

The president expressed mock annoyance.



“There’s an example of a brother just embarrassing me for no reason, just for no reason whatsoever.”

Mr. Obama predicted what Cooper would say later to her friends.

“‘I can’t believe Mike — he’s such a fool. I was just mortified. Fortunately, the president was nice about it. So it’s alright,’” Obama said.

Jones says that, “It was so silent in there and everyone was just taking pictures I figured I had to say something to make people laugh.”

It was President Obama who got the last laugh as he gave Cooper a hug and kissed her on the cheek.

“Give me a kiss and give him something to talk about. Now, he’s really jealous.”

No jealousy, just an everlasting memory.

Mike and Aia say they didn't know the president was going to be there on the same day they were planning to vote. One day, they’ll tell their grandkids about it.

Now that shithole website posted it and the sponges of the racist right soak it and ran with it.

Of course how is that news?

Anything that makes the president look bad is good news for the agitators of the racist right and their friends in the Republican Party.

If Mike Brown and Aia Cooper went out to vote early, why don't you?

Take a stand against conservative misinformation and the ignorance of the racist right!

VOTE.

VOTE EARLY!

VOTE NOW!

NC Forward Together / Saving OurSelves Voting Rights Rally

March 11th, 2014 - Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II and the Forward Together Movement welcomes the S.O.S. Coalition in Raleigh as its Caravan for Democracy makes its way from Selma, Ala. to Washington DC, leaving 49 years almost to the day after civil rights leaders were beaten for daring to organize for voting rights in the Jim Crow South. Many of the assembled carry signs that memorialize the efforts and sacrifices made at Bloody Sunday in March 1965, sacrifices that spurred Congress to act on the mass disenfranchisement of African Americans by passing the Voting Rights Act later that summer.