{"id":17344,"date":"2018-04-25T16:31:43","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T16:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=17344"},"modified":"2018-04-27T16:35:25","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T16:35:25","slug":"liberia-white-citizenship-to-be-or-not-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/liberia-white-citizenship-to-be-or-not-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: White Citizenship: To Be Or Not To Be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Editor\u2019s Note:<\/strong> The following article was originally published 36 years ago, in the April 21, 1982 edition of the Daily Observer. Thanks to Theophilus J. W. Browne for resurrecting this article as a tribute to the author, whose arguments provide much needed insight on how far the debate for and against White Citizenship in Liberia has come.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>By Walter Y. Wisner<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>One of the fundamental issues dominating the constitutional hearing throughout the country by illiterate and literate citizens has been, and continues to be, whether or not a white man should be granted Liberian citizenship under the new constitution of the Republic of Liberia.<\/p>\n<p>Various interest groups have expressed different opinions on this issue, apparently due to its racial nature. Against this background, some of these interest groups have approached this issue from a partisan point of view, while others approach is simply for respect of international conventions to which Liberia is a signatory.<\/p>\n<p>Despite differences in views and opinions, fundamentally, excerpts from all views and opinions seem chauvinistically nationalistic: how to save our country from foreign encroachment or domination.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.liberianobserver.com\/opinion\/commentaries\/white-citizenship-to-be-or-not-to-be\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.liberianobserver.com\/opinion\/commentaries\/white-citizenship-to-be-or-not-to-be\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Editor\u2019s Note: The following article was originally published 36 years ago, in the April 21, 1982 edition of the Daily Observer. Thanks to Theophilus J. W. Browne for resurrecting this article as a tribute to the author, whose arguments provide much needed insight on how far the debate for and against White Citizenship in Liberia [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-liberia","type-news-articles","item-year-642","item-theme-discrimination","item-theme-ethnic-racial-religious"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17344","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=17344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17345,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17344\/revisions\/17345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}