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Stereotypes: Racial Profiling In The United States

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It does not happen very often: Fifty youths are protesting with signs like “Let us vote” and chanting things like “Our voices matter,” outside the office of Ohio’s Secretary of State Jon Husted in Columbus, Ohio, then, suddenly, they learn that they’ve won. “We did it!” protest organizer Meredith Whitaker, 17, shouted into a megaphone. “We’re showing the government that they might not care about us, but we care about them.” On Friday afternoon, March 11, 2016, that really happened when Franklin County Common Pleas Court Judge Richard Frye issued an emergency order to block Secretary of State Husted’s attempt to stop 17-year-olds from casting ballots to elect candidates for the next president. Even though more than 16,000 17-year olds had already

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