Why African Americans Should Be Granted Citizenship

Our City of Athens has been struggling for some time now to become a stronger city. At this time we are facing a battle just as difficult as the recent battles we have faced. As an assembly, we granted the metics who fought with Thrasybulus the right to citizenship. Those metics showed loyalty, strength, and passion to give Athens a chance to get back to the city we once were. Those characteristics shown by the metics are similar characteristics the slaves who also fought showed as well. I believe, slaves who fought against the Thirty Tyrants should be granted citizenship, for the commitment and help that they have given to the City of Athens. Those slaves who fought against the Thirty Tyrants have demonstrated commitment to the city. Among the many others, they are also ones who are responsible for saving our city from the Thirty Tyrants (Vlassopoulos 1999). The loyalty skills those slaves have displayed, can establish the trust between the slaves and ourselves. This trust can led us to believe they will help us if future wars are to happen again. Today, we need citizens who are committed to the city in order to restore what is destroyed. If we have citizens that …show more content…
Granting the slaves who stood next to Thrasybulus during the Peloponnesian War, would help our city economically later on. As we all know, we have products that we import and export between our city and other cities. These imports and exports give us another taxing exchange. By having more citizens, we will have more people buying the product, which in the long run will give us more tax fund (Slavicek 2014). Once before, we allowed people to be citizens so they could build a business or own property with the fee of paying higher taxes to us fund our annual occasions, such as festivals (Slavicek 2014). Right now we do not tax our slaves, granting them citizenship will help us bring in more tax