{"id":6607,"date":"2016-01-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/abolishing-constitutional-racism-and-single-citizenship-in-liberia\/?lang=fr"},"modified":"2018-05-25T06:32:38","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T06:32:38","slug":"abolishing-constitutional-racism-and-single-citizenship-in-liberia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/abolishing-constitutional-racism-and-single-citizenship-in-liberia\/","title":{"rendered":"Abolishing \u00ab\u00a0constitutional racism\u00a0\u00bb and single citizenship in Liberia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Ernest S. Maximore<\/p>\n<p>Article 27(b) of the Liberia Constitution read thus: \u201cIn order to preserve, foster and maintain the positive Liberian culture, values and character, only persons who are Negroes or of Negro descent shall qualify by birth or by naturalization to be citizens of Liberia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a layman, plain, simple and strict interpretation, when you are not a Negro or Negro descent, you cannot or will not be able to help and\/or preserve, foster and maintain the positive Liberian culture, values and character. Liberian Government is simply saying to hell   to any   other races and the rapid global and mutual cultural transmission and osmosis! They do not have any cultural goodies that worth emulation and enabling Liberia attaining any of those valuable distinctiveness. Liberia is independent and its sovereignty and cultural values should not be ruined, degenerated and infused by the immoderation and unrestrained lifestyle and other unwarranted foreign manipulations, control and dominance that come with multi-race.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theperspective.org\/2016\/0111201602.php\" target=\"_blank\">more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Ernest S. Maximore Article 27(b) of the Liberia Constitution read thus: \u201cIn order to preserve, foster and maintain the positive Liberian culture, values and character, only persons who are Negroes or of Negro descent shall qualify by birth or by naturalization to be citizens of Liberia.\u201d In a layman, plain, simple and strict interpretation, [&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":[499],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classifiee","region-afrique-de-l-ouest","region-liberia-fr","type-articles-de-presse","item-year-395","item-theme-discrimination-fr","item-theme-double-nationalite","item-theme-ethnique-raciale-religieuse"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6627,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6607\/revisions\/6627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}