{"id":16257,"date":"2018-03-01T15:38:52","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T15:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=16257"},"modified":"2018-03-04T15:41:04","modified_gmt":"2018-03-04T15:41:04","slug":"why-convince-liberians-to-give-citizenship-to-non-negroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/why-convince-liberians-to-give-citizenship-to-non-negroes\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Convince Liberians to Give Citizenship to Non-Negroes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Aisha M. Dukul\u00e9<\/p>\n<p>In his inaugural address, President George M. Weah\u2019s called Liberians to do away with the constitution\u2019s \u201cnegro clause\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The President discussed Article 12, stating, \u201cit is my view that keeping such a clause in our constitution is unnecessary, racist, and inappropriate for the place that Liberia occupies today in the comity of nations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was a surprising move for many Liberians for the President to address this issue so early on, while the country faces many pressing challenges, such as the \u201cmessy\u201d educational and the failing healthcare system, the broken economy, and of course dual citizenship for the Liberian Diaspora.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/frontpageafricaonline.com\/index.php\/op-ed\/7077-why-convince-liberians-to-give-citizenship-to-non-negroes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/frontpageafricaonline.com\/index.php\/op-ed\/7077-why-convince-liberians-to-give-citizenship-to-non-negroes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Aisha M. Dukul\u00e9 In his inaugural address, President George M. Weah\u2019s called Liberians to do away with the constitution\u2019s \u201cnegro clause\u201d. The President discussed Article 12, stating, \u201cit is my view that keeping such a clause in our constitution is unnecessary, racist, and inappropriate for the place that Liberia occupies today in the comity [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-liberia","type-news-articles","item-year-642","item-theme-discrimination","item-theme-dual-nationality","item-theme-ethnic-racial-religious"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16258,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16257\/revisions\/16258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}