T.E. TEENS TALK
WHAT DOES BLMÂ MEAN?
B-L-M. Black Lives Matter. For some who may not yet understand, you would say, well yes, of course! All Lives Matter. Well of course all lives should matter and everyone should be treated fairly. Today, if a white man were to be pulled over by an officer, the officer would ask that man a few questions, perhaps give him a ticket depending, and then they would both be on their way. A black man has to have a whole set of rules. Talking back shouldn't get a black man shot. A white man doesn't have to ask to reach for his licence and registration. A white woman could explain that she has a condition or that she is unable to exit the car, or that she has a limp and is not intoxicated. A black person would be arrested, battered, and often times injured or killed. Black Lives Matter simply means that if Officer Trevor pulls over Hannah Johnson and allows her to speak freely to him and pulls out her papers easily, and even refuses to step out of her car, and still goes home alive that night, so should any minority, especially black people in this day and age. We don't want revenge, we want equality so we all can have peace.
WHAT EXACTLY IS ICE?
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
The Immigrations and Customs Enforcement is no more humane than dairy farms or poultry farms. The people there of all backgrounds are HUMAN. They feel pain just like you and me.More than 44% of those people are from Haiti. Lots of these facilities hold these people in metal fences with tin foil blankets, few have bathrooms, and the road to legalization is long and seemingly endless. People are going missing and it needs to stop.
WHAT ARE SOME OF THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS?
REPUBLICANS
Political Views
Republicans believe abortion should be illegal with no exceptions and that the Constitution should be amended to ban the procedure.
They are against same-sex marriage and the LGBTQ+ community as a whole and believe that conversion therapy is a viable option. (Which it isn't entirely.)
Many are Christian (or claim to be) if not all.
Republicans cast doubts on whether the climate is changing, rejecting the findings of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. They view it as a "political mechanism".
Republicans would end the health care program for the elderly entirely This would require seniors to either enroll in a private, non-government, owned insurance plan or try to get by with the limits on how much the government will pay them.
Many republicans blamed The Great Recession on "the government's own housing policies," (which means the political party in house at the time) and not Wall Street actions, calling the banking regulations "an excuse to establish unprecedented government control over the nation's financial markets."
Republicans think the Iran deal "gravely threatens our security, our interests, and the survival of our friends." Republicans called it: "a personal agreement between the president and his negotiating partners and non-binding on the next president." That last line sounds quite shady doesn't it? It's just a little deal between Trump and Iran, but the next president has to fend for himself?
While both parties support Israel, the Republicans said nothing about the two-state solution that has been the bipartisan cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy for decades.
"I have joined the political arena so that the powerful can no longer beat up on people who cannot defend themselves," Trump said in accepting the Republican presidential nomination. The GOP platform would make things much easier for the powerful. It would repeal or raise contribution limits and allow outside groups to spend millions on campaigns to hide their donors.
The GOP platform endorsed state efforts to impose voter identification requirements that the U.S. Justice Department and several federal and state courts have said discriminate against minority and poor voters. The platform called Justice's actions "bullying." Cases of in-person voter fraud, which such voter-ID laws are supposed to prevent, are "nearly non-existent," according to the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University Law School.​
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DEMOCRATS
Politcal Views
Democrats believe unequivocally, like the majority of Americans, that every woman should have access to quality reproductive health care services, including safe and legal abortion. Essentially pro-choice. No one is pro-death but there should be exceptions. In the event that the mother's life is threatened or if the mother doesn't want to birth the child of her rapist and get sued (which has happened before in Alabama). They believe women should have autonomy of her uterus as well.
Democrats applauded the U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized same-sex marriage. Love is Love!
Democrats called for fixing the "broken immigration system", including a path to citizenship for 11 million undocumented immigrants. Walls should have open and welcoming doors.
They think climate change poses a real and urgent threat to our economy, our national security, and our future.
Democrats would not only would "fight any attempts by Republicans in Congress to privatize, voucher-ize, or 'phase out' Medicare," but would allow Americans older than 55 to enroll.
Democrats: The party promised to "vigorously implement, enforce, and build on" banking regulations enacted to curb risky practices by financial institutions and "will stop dead in its tracks every Republican effort to weaken it."
Democrats: President Barack Obama's agreement to relax economic sanctions on Iran in exchange for curbs on its nuclear program "verifiably cuts off all of Iran's pathways to a bomb without resorting to war."
Democrats: The platform backed a "secure and democratic Jewish state" of Israel and a chance for Palestinians to "govern themselves in their own viable state, in peace and dignity."
Democrats: They want to overturn the Citizens United decision, which eased restrictions on corporate and union campaign spending. "We need to end secret, unaccountable money in politics by requiring, through executive order or legislation, significantly more disclosure and transparency -- by outside groups, federal contractors, and public corporations to their shareholders," the platform said.
Democrats: The party said it would fight laws requiring certain forms of voter identification "to preserve the fundamental right to vote." A leader of the 1963 landmark Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march, Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), helped nominate Clinton for president on Tuesday.
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