As time really change? Yesterday I learned something that dumb-founded me and it was disfranchisement. But what I truly can't understand is why convicted felons lose their right as citizen to vote. Even after they serve and completed their sentence. Yesterday I meet a fellow classmate, I simply ask or you register to vote. His reply was I can't I'm a felon. At that moment I realize that the government has made a big mistake. This guy was not the typical stereotype convent. He is getting a higher education at a university. He is now a law-biding citizen of the United States land of the free, who soon will be a college graduate. Now can you tell me honestly that this guy does not deserve the right to vote? Absolutely not that's why I am strongly against disfranchisement. I believe persons who have been convicted of a felon should be able have voting rights.
             Now has society really change? Unfortunately not today disfranchisement laws mirror post civil war to exclude blacks from the political process. "There is approximately 4.7million Americans or 1 in 43 adults" are disfranchised and they are 1.8 million or 1 in 13 African Americans that unable to voice their opinion. According to Right to vote campaign. That's almost half of the disfranchised population is black. Why? Lets take a look into history and now political reasons to answer the question.
             Needless to say United States of American land of opportunity, as a history for creating obstacles for blacks, now for ex-convents with the surprising majority being black. In 1870 the 15th Amendment was ratified which provided specifically that the right to vote shall not be denied or reduced on the basic of race, color or previous condition of servitude." This superseded state laws that had directly prohibited black voting. Congress then went a step farer, which included criminal penalties for interference with the right to vote. ...