Did You Know Voting Isn’t a Constitutional Right of Citizenship

We need to fix this if we’re going to keep our Constitutional Republic & Representative Democracy.

The right to equal and unencumbered ability to vote is not a condition, term or grant of Citizenship. This is a fatal flaw in our American enterprise and the overwhelming majority of my fellow American citizens don’t know this fact. For context about the hypocrisy of this “Ghost in the Machine”, let me provide a brief outline of an American Journey. I’m a 10th generation African American citizen and father. My mother’s family was brought to America as slaves in roughly 1725, to Hemingway South Carolina. We were freed at the death of my Great Great-Great Grandfather and plantation owner, Peter Pressley in roughly 1836. My family has branched from there across our country and achieved the various levels of the “hoped for American Dream”, in the public and private sector, as successful business owners through to high levels of elected office. My sons are part of the 11th generation of our family story. America has been both cruel and hopeful, demeaning and uplifting, violent and peaceful, to my family and to all who have ventured through the American experience.

One vestige of the American experience is citizenship and the enumerable rights that are…