Max Eternity - In 2004 I went to cast my vote and was told that I was dead.  The government used this story to try and steal my vote.  This is a true story. 

After having voted since 1984 in numerous presidential elections, suddenly my voter registration status gets mixed up, and I get put down as deceased.  Obviously, I'm alive and well, not dead.

I wished I could say that I was surprised by such strange events, but being an African American male, in these United States, I know too well the face of hatred and scorn.  I know to well the stench of disenfranchisement; regardless of the fact that I'm not a felon, regardless of the fact that I've been a tax paying citizen since 1982, regardless of the fact that I am a business owner, regardless of the fact that my IQ excedes 140 or anything else that would be attributed in my favor.  At the end of the day I'm still a black man, who like all other black men, is largely disrespected and treated as a throwaway.