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"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.
The author contends that philosophy, art, and literature are empowering, because they teach the disenfranchised how to challenge the elite without violence.
Whites still outearn blacks, black unemployment is twice the rate of white unemployment, and 13 percent of black men are disenfranchised because of felony convictions.
As a result, the English parliament enacted the Penal Laws of 1704, which disenfranchised the Catholic Irish; their purpose was to keep the majority of Irish poor and powerless.
Conferees further noted that possibilities for promotion among women and members of "disenfranchised groups" must be in place to ensure that "diversity" goes beyond race.