レッツ　エンジョイ　イングリッシュ　19th

【The election is interesting】

It’s advantageous for the existing political parties.

Each of political parties requests adversity agency to make and their videotape is recorded. Its content is as if it were a promotional video, though the important thing is its content.

《Internet has learned to be used》

This was already the time of internet when the book was written in 2008, but none of them can use the internet in the election campaign then.

Though Diet member had its own homepage originally, and always appealed its own opinion there, but when the election started, they couldn’t update.

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Its reason is it’s neither a drawing nor printed matter were allowed in the Public Office Election law, but the voice that it was in the wrong became strong, and internet has learned to be used from the election campaign of the House of Councilors July in 2013.

《Even if the candidate doesn’t violate the election law…》

Even if the candidate in the election didn’t violate the election law, if the central figure on the election campaign violated, and sentenced for a crime, even if the candidate was elected, to be elected becomes invalid. We call it the guilt by….

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《Even if the candidate didn’t violate the election law…》

We call it the guilt-by-association system 連座制. It means making the one who violates the law take the responsibility.

Why is there the system like that? Because if there is the system like that, the candidate must have asked its supporters and friends desperately not to violate the election law, as a result, the violation on the election law would decrease. There is the point in the law.

But when a marginal campaign staffer on the election campaign violates the election law, the candidate isn’t always …

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《Even if the candidate didn’t violate the election law…》

…the candidate isn’t always disqualified. When the campaign manager or a person in charge of accounts in the election campaign, their secretary and their relatives like a spouse are sentenced for a crime, the candidate is disqualified.

If the big bananas like that are accused of malicious illegal election and are sentenced for a crime, being elected on the candidate itself becomes invalid.

The campaign manager is guilty more than fine, and both of relatives and secretaries are more than imprisonment.

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But it doesn’t always mean the candidate is disqualified automatically. A prosecutor sues the candidate itself who was elected, asking for the candidate was elected is invalid to the high court within thirty days from the guilty was confirmed.

If being elected is invalid is decided in the court, the one who was elected is disqualified, to make matters worse, it is forbidden to stand for in the same election from the same electoral area for five years after that.

《The system which has a loophole》

It’s rather strict system, but the electoral area which is….

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《The system which has a loophole》

…but the electoral area which is forbidden to stand for is the same one. If standing for the election from the next one, it’s all right. Besides, even if being the same electoral area, if standing for the election on the House of Representatives, standing for the election on mayor is possible in the same electoral area.

Judging from the point on the quilt-by-association system, being against the election isn’t good, standing for other election should forbid, but it has never been done. The one who thought of the system may…

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《The system which has a loophole》

The one who has thought of the system may not have thought if being disqualified in the guilt-by-association system, it’s too embarrassed to stand for other election, but there has been the one actually.

The one who misuses the guilt-by-associate system may have showed up, making the relative of its rival candidate violate the election law on purpose and making its rival candidate be disqualified. There is the possibility of the malicious way like that.

But we call it a lure in this case, and it’s also against the election law

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Needless to say the candidate who was aimed at doesn’t disqualified.

《Writing on the voting paper is unusual》

Writing the name on the candidate or the name of the political party on the voting paper in Japan. Though we found it natural, it’s exceptional and unusual extremely in the world.

The name on the candidate or the name of the political party are already printed on the voting paper overseas, and when voting, eligible voters put a mark on the voting paper.

As to developing countries, symbol mark on the candidate or the political party are printed on….

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…symbol mark on the candidate or the political party are already printed on the voting paper, for there are lots of people who can’t read or write so much that lots of them remember the candidate and the political party which they should vote with the symbol mark.

The one who votes writes the name on the candidate or the political party on the voting paper in Japan, for all the Japanese find it natural to read and write.

《If getting the polling place first…》

There are some people who look forward to going to the polling place early in the morning, for if…

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If going to the polling place first on the day of voting, the person of the board of election asks the one who came first to make sure whether or not the ballot box is empty.

If the ballot box was full of voting paper written on the name of candidate before voting is done, it will be troublesome, but it happens frequently in despotic state or in developing countries, so asking the one who came first in the polling place to make sure the ballot box is empty.

《Absentee voting and early voting》

Voting before the day of voting use to be called an absentee voting.

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《Absentee voting and early voting》

Except for the absentee voting, there is early voting at present.

The absentee voting used to mean before that the one in the position who was forced to be absent vote before the voting day, for without being absent on the day of voting, going to vote was natural, there used to be awareness on us like that before.

As being absent is it has a job officially, so if doing the absentee voting, we have to show the reason clearly why we are absent on the voting day.

As hanging out with some friends, I’m going to vote in advance.

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《Absentee voting and early voting》

There used to be the atmosphere in which we couldn’t say like that before, but we don’t think like that at present. As hanging out with some friends on the voting day, I don’t go for voting. It’s usual for us, but voting rate goes down more and more.

So it doesn’t matter the reason of being able to go for voting on the voting day, but please vote before the voting day. It has learned to be like that, so we call it early voting.

On the other hand, the system of absentee voting remains. A person who is far away from the place…

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A person who is away from the place where it lives can vote in the government office nearby in advance. It’s the absentee voting.

《Early voting is used》

As the early voting was introduced, the voting rate on the early voting becomes high little by little, for it’s taken advantage for organized mobilization.

The group supporting a candidate wants infallible votes as much as possible, so it encourages supporters to do early voting. If making them vote beforehand, it prevents them from not going to voting in advance, especially a religious group adopts the way.

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《Early voting is used》

Taking the eligible voters to the ballot place by car on the voting day has limit in number, but adopting the way of early voting, the religious group can take supporters in several days.

It’s the exit poll in mass media which was caught in the crossfire.

Who did you vote? The exit poll asked the person who came out of the ballot place on the voting day, but it can’t ask the one who did the early voting, so the exit poll learned to be carried out to the ones who did the early voting.

《We are able to learn to vote overseas》

The number…

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《We’ve learn to be able to vote in foreign countries》

The number of Japanese eligible voters who live overseas are over seven hundred thousand, but they had never allowed to vote the election in Japan for a long time.

The ones who were registered in the electoral roll of voters which means the eligible voters used to be limited to the ones who were registered as residents in Japan.

On the other hand, foreign people of lots of countries who live overseas can vote for the election in their nation.

Americans who lived in Japan went for voting in the American…

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《We've learned to be able to vote in foreign countries》

We can see the scene that Americans who lived in Japan go for voting to American embassy for the Presiential election in America, but Japan couldn't do the same thing, so it was strange, it seemed lots of the Japanese thought like that, and the Japanese who live overseas can vote in the election of Japan from 1998.

But the one which the Japanese who live overseas could vote was proportional relatives of the House of Representatives or the House of Coucilors alone. They couldn't vote in the single seat...

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《We've learned to be able to vote in foreign countries》

They couldn't vote the single seat constituency in the House of Representatives and the electoral area of the House of councilors.

The Japanese voted the embassy and consulate overseas and its voting paper is carried to Japan and is included in the vote count of the central board of the election.

Though it wasn't hard,carrying the voting paper on the single seat constituency to each board of election was hard. The ones who were engaged in the election thought like that.

But the Supreme Court showed...

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《We’ve learned to be able to vote in foreign countries》

But the Supreme Court showed the judgement that the public office election law which didn’t allow to vote in the single seat constituency or in other electoral area was against the constitution September in 2009.

As receiving it, the public office election law has been revised so as that the Japanese who live overseas can vote in the single seat constituency of the House of Representatives or in the electoral area of the House of Councilors.

As to the Japanese who live overseas, they are registered….

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…they are registered in the electoral roll of voters overseas and can vote as long as they submit their residence report to the Japanese embassy or consulate.

There was the embassy and consulate which don’t receive the residence report, but then they can vote by mail.

Which electoral area can they vote? They can in the most recent electoral area where they had the certificate of residence before going overseas.

Some of the Japaneses who live overseas were born overseas and have never lived in Japan, though having the nationality of Japan. They can vote in…

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They can vote in the electoral area where they have the permanent domicile 本籍.

《Why is the news flash about election result so fast?》

When the voting on the election was over, and the instant the vote counting starts, the candidate who became a projected winner was shown on the hour reports, and it’s natural at present.

The counting vote has just started just now, but why do you show the one who was a projected winner?

Viewer sometimes protested to the board of election like that, but what a nuisance it was for the board of election, for it doesn’t always…

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《Why is the news flash about election result so fast?》

…for it doesn’t always mean that the member of the board of election showed the one who became winner absolutely.

After vote counting was over, the board of election announced a successful candidate. Though announcing the situation so far on the vote counting, deciding who was elected is the job for the board of election, and they don’t announce which candidate was elected absolutely.

It is the mass media like TV station which announced like that. Mass media announces the candidate is elected absolutely…

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The mass media announces the candidate was elected absolutely with its own responsibility, saying if remains the situation as it is, the candidate will be elected absolutely.

As a result, the TV station showed the candidate is elected absolutely, but other one doesn’t like that. It happens frequently, moreover once showing the candidate was elected absolutely, but it was withdrawn without knowing it, for it must have been misunderstanding.

《Exit polls demonstrates its power》

Why is it shown the candidate was elected absolutely so fast? When starting the…

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《Exit polls demonstrates its power》

When starting the election, each of mass media carries out the opinion poll and researches which candidate is strong, going around the campaign office on each of candidates and obtained how much the candidate got the voting by questioning the one who was in charge of the election in the political party.

We call it estimating the number of votes. Grasping rough tendency with it, the mass media feels which candidate would win.

Moreover it asks the person who voted and came from the polling station of each place, who have you …

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《The exit polls demonstrate its power》

The mass media asked a person who has voted and came from the polling statin on the voting day, who have you voted?

As preparing for the voting in advance like that, the mass media can expect which candidate seems to win, and sending the people to the ballot counting place and looking at the scene of counting vote and counting how much which candidate has voting.

Some of the ballot counting place announces the situation so far.

As to the situation so far, it is reported to the board of election in prefectures, and…

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《Exit polls demonstrate its power》

…and gathering its voting and is announced.

The mass media gathering the voting each of ballot-counting office originally is faster rather than waiting for the formal announcement by the board of election.

The author said he was in charge of estimating the number of votes of candidates beforehand and gathering voting at the ballot-counting office originally when being engaged in the reporter of NHK, staking his life on the breaking news on ballot counting.

But someone said to the author like the next.

We will know its…

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【The election is interesting】

We’ll know its result tomorrow in the end, but why do you have to break the news, putting a lot of time and effort?

When hearing it, the author was aghast, for the side which reports the news has thought it’s their mission to report as early as possible.

【Epilogue】

《It’s us who change the politics》

The author said he stayed in America for a month and interviewed on the Presidential election autumn in 2012.

Two pairs of the candidate of the President and the vice President criticize each other and appeal how right each of …

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【Epilogue】

《It’s us who change the politics》

…and appeal how right each of insistence is right to the nation and persuade. The candidates have believed in the power of the words and fought using words as weapon.

The Americans which support the campaign in the whole America. The grass roots movement has been alive and kicking at present, especially the young people who sympathized with the insistence of the candidate Obama belonged to the Democratic Party gathered, regardless the color of the skin, and called out to the people for the support of Obama.

The people who approved the appeal…

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【Epilogue】

《It’s us who change the politics》

The people who approved of the appeal from the candidate contribute the money in the internet. The amount of the money each of them donates is limited, and it’s not always the large amount of the money, but if the money is collected, its amount of money is incredible.

Lots of people stood up at the election, and tried to change the nation, and when lots of people gathered, the nation would change. The author said he is overwhelmed by its dynamism.

Though America has been criticized in varied ways, it turned out that America is the major power…

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【Epilogue】

《It’s us who change the politics》

…it tuned out that America is the major power of democracy.

When comparing it with the politics in Japan, some people may have been disappointed how poor the politics and election in Japan is, but the author said don’t be so pessimistic.

When the author was a schoolboy in junior high school, the presidential election on the Liberal Democratic Party was done with the ugly fight by the bosses of each faction, bargaining in a chamber council, or collusion.

The large amount of money was exchanged among the statesmen so as to win the position …

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《It’s us who change the politics》

The large amount of money was exchanged among the statesmen so as to win the position of the president. The rumor was unceasing.

The president on the Liberal Democratic Party became the Prime Minister in Japan as it was, so we were forced to have the impression the Prime Minister was decided by the statesmen alone, being beyond our reach.

Even if going to the voting, the politics in Japan wouldn’t change in the end.

The people who thought like that increased so much that the voting rate continued to drop, especially the voting rate on the…

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《It’s us who change the politics》

…in particular, the voting rate on the young people have been low.

Even if we complain that the bosses of the faction have decided the politics in Japan, it’s inexcusable, but it’s us the nation who chose the statesmen in the election, to be exact, it’s our parents or grandparents.

If criticizing the politics in Japan isn’t good, it’s returned us, the generation of our parents and grandparents as criticism.

Eventually, we the nation can have statesmen which are suitable for us. Criticizing the politics means criticizing ourselves.

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【Epilogue】

《It’s us who decide the politics》

But the politics in Japan has changed gradually, and the member of the Liberal Democratic Party and the friend of party have learned to take part in the presidential election in the Liberal Democratic Party.

The friend of the party doesn’t always mean the member of the political party, but is a supporter outside the political party, or an individual who has friendly relationship with the political party.

As a result, candidates on the president of the political party have learned to have to describe to the nation their policy and to do their…

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【Epilogue】

《It’s us who change the politics》

…and to do their best so as to win support. Making use of words and persuading others. The way of American election has learned to be adopted little by little.

As to the members of the Liberal Democratic Party, they have to choose the leader supporting from the nation so as to win the next election.

The leader who is supported inside the Liberal Democratic Party alone can’t win the election.

In consequence, the one who was supported from the nation learned to be chosen to the president on the Liberal Democratic Party.

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【Epilogue】

《It’s us who change the politics》

The will on the nation has learned to influence over choosing the Prime Minister, though it’s little by little.

Single seat constituency has been introduced into the election of the Lower House, and It’s changed the politics in Japan greatly.

If the nation makes the Liberal Democratic Party win in the election, the president in the Liberal Democratic Party becomes the Prime Minister, and making the Democratic Party win, the one in the Democratic Party is the leader in Japan.

The Democratic Party won in the election of the Lower House in 2009…

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【Epilogue】

《It’s us who change the politics》

…and the Prime Minister from the Democratic Party was born in 2009 actually.

Which political party do we the nation vote? It decided the Prime Minister in Japan.

The politics on the Democratic Party was criticized in 2012, and the Prime Minister belonged to the Liberal Democratic Party was born then.

Even if we vote, nothing will change, but it isn’t.

There are some people who don’t change its attitude, they will vote for the Liberal Democratic Party or the Democratic Party absolutely.

They are the basic vote on the political party.

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【Epilogue】

《It's us who change the politics》

Except for them, there are others who change to vote of the political party everytime in the election, and we call the vote of them shifting votes.

To tell the truth, a few percent of the shifting votes change its votes, the result on the elction changes so much and we call it the wind blows.

The Democratic Party gained the great victory in the election of the House of Representatives in 2009,and the Lieberal Democratic Party won in 2012,for the wind blew then.

Our vote can change the politics in Japan exactly.

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【Epilogue】

《It's us who change the politics》

There　are some　people　who　don't have the right to vote, but the author said them to wait for the day when they gain the right to vote, looking forward to it, suggesting which political party they should vote,or the candidate which it belonged to before carrying out the vote. Let's change the politics in Japan with your vote,the author said like that.

The election chooses the people who decide the way of using the tax paid by us, the author said in the book like that. The very important tax which we paind with difficulty. We don't think we...

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【Epilogue】

We don't think we want others to waste the important tax we paid.

As earning with difficulty,making a fuss when itself or the member of its family use the money,but being indifferent to the way of using the tax.

There is the one aournd us, and if it's the statesman,our tax is wasted.

We should go to voting and choose the statesman who use the tax effectively and carefully.

The book,あした選挙にいくまえに、written by Akira Ikegami was over, and I'm going to move on other book,世界一ニュースがわかる本 from now on.

【Preface】

《The economy in the world falling into the crisis extremely》

The problem...

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【The preface】

《The economy in the world falling into the crisis extremely》

The problem on the subprime loan had influence over the economy in the world so much. The subprime loan means the housing loan at high interest rate for a low income earner. It was thought the problem returned to the normal until autumn in 2008.

But as Lehman Brothers which was a major brokerage firm went bankrupt, and credit impairment spread over all over the world, and the economy in the world fell into the terrible crisis.

Even if the Lehman Brothers fell into the management crisis, it’s the matter on the…

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【The preface】

《The economy in the world falling into the crisis extremely》

…it’s the matter on the single private company, so the government didn’t need to interrupt with the private company, the Bush government went through with the basic principle on the Republican Party, but its compensation was so big.

Without any credit, finance isn’t formed. If distrust that the financial institution on the trading partner may have broken down increases, the transaction between the financial institution will stop.

If the finance falls into malfunction, It would have serious influence over the real...

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【Preface】

《The economy in the world falling into the crisis extremely》

…it would have serious influence over the actual economy, and we learned the base on the economy like that again, and at the same time, it proved that the danger on the financial capitalism of American style.

The author said he was going to express the system on the subprime loan later on. As a result, the activity of imposing the risk to others and making money scattered its risk all over the world.

Moreover, executives on the Lehman Brothers were high salaried employees, and the word of greed is suitable for them.

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【Preface】

《The economy in the world falling into the serious crisis》

The money game done by the part of the greedy people caused the recession in the world, and the people who worked hard until then were at a loss.

Criticism on the neoliberalism which hailed around the world of the capitalism increased, and the people have groped the new model in the capitalism.

On the other hand, the new President of Obama was born in America, and lots of the people in the world were touched. Discrimination against the black people continued in America for a long time, but the black President was born…

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【prologue】

《The economy in the world falling into the serious crisis》

…but the black President was born in America at last, and America has changed for itself. The author said he’s found the strength on America there.

And the expectation on Obama was so big that he was worried about its backlash. No one can make all of the things recover. There is the limit that they can do.

How much can they bear the reality? While the people put up with something, what can the Obama government do? We need to see them cooley.

By the way, what about our Japan?

The financial crisis spilled over, and….

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【Prologue】

《The economy in the world falling into the serious crisis》

…and the economy in Japan burst into the recession.

Though the politics which can do away with the anxiety among people and making us feel the bright hope in the future was asked for, straying off the course by the Aso government continued.

His misreading on Chinese character became the topic among the people in Japan.

There is the criticism that some people are absorbed in reading comic alone so much that they can’t read the Chinese characters correctly. The author’s comment continued, but I’m going to omit it.

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【The Obama government was born】

《The significance on the Obama government》

Mr. Barack Obama was elected as the forty fourth President in America. He is a black person whose father is from Kenya. The President in America were all the white people until then, so it’s epoch making.

He was opposed to the War in Iraq which the Bush government adopted.

Oh, I remember expressing the same content before, so I’m sorry for it.

His father is a Kenyan in Africa. His school record was good and went to Hawai as international student and got to know a white lady there, and got married to her there.

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【The Obama government was born】

《Significance on the President Obama》

Mr. Obama was born soon. His father was from Kenya, but he was born in America and gained the nationality on America, so he could stand for the Presidential election in America.

His father was away from Hawai so as to get into Harvard university and after that got divorce and returned to Kenya.

On the other hand, his mother got married again to an international student from Indonesia. His mother went to Indonesia with him and lived there together for a while.

But his mother thought she wanted her son to receive his..

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【The Obama government was born】

《Significance on the President Obama》

But his mother thought she wanted his son to receive education in America and sent him alone back to Hawai, and he was brought up by his grandparents there.

After graduating from high school in Hawai, he moved to prestigious Columbia university in New York through university in California.

After graduating from university, Obama worked in Chicago so as to improve the lives of poor black young people, for he had his own experience being discriminated as black one.

Mr. Obama who gained experience there advanced to…

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【The Obama government was born】

《Significance on the Obama President》

Mr. Obama who gained experience there advanced to graduate school in Harvard, the one which his father used to go.

Mr. Obama who qualified as lawyer returned to Chicago again, and was said, if he wanted to help the poor, he should be the Diet member, and being the member of county council in Illinois where there is Chicago.

After that, being Senate of the Congress, and reached the President which is the top of America.

Lots of the black people in America are the descendants who the ones used to live in Africa originally

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【The Obama government was born】

《Significance on the Obama President》

But they were taken to America as slaves, and the black people are descendants from them. Emancipation proclamation was done at the time of the President of Lincoln, but they were discriminated after that, for lots of them were so poor that they couldn’t go to school enough, so they had little chance of getting job, so they remained poor. The vicious circle was repeated.

The racism against black people remains even at present, so it had been thought the President of the black would appear in the distant future.

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