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Some felt that there had been loss of trust by clients from "disenfranchised" groups because of a belief that legal services programs have pulled away from discrimination-based initiatives.
"With the huge number of people disenfranchised, you're really not open to all of the citizenry in making decisions," is one Alabama Democratic legislator's defense of the idea.
Even as William Bennett and the National Political Congress of Black Women renew their assault on companies that profit from gangsta rap and claim that it marks a shameful new low in American pop culture, and even as its defenders assert (as Chuck D does) that it's a counter-CNN for the disenfranchised, gangsta rap is merely the wheel coming full circle--back to Charles Harris and "After The Ball."
9% respectively in 1999) [ 12 ] . Minority women from poor urban communities, such as D. C., enter prenatal care later and have fewer prenatal care visits than white women of higher socio-economic levels [ 13 14 ] . Women who make little or no use of prenatal care often are disenfranchised members of the community, such as homeless and substance abusing women [ 15 16 ] . In D.C., many people, particularly those from disenfranchised communities, do not believe that prenatal care is important.
It gives voice to disenfranchised folks who would be ignored otherwise.
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