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re: Reveille Article Regarding Voter ID
Posted on 10/20/14 at 12:38 pm to jimbeam
Posted on 10/20/14 at 12:38 pm to jimbeam
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Previously, states in the Jim Crow South used poll taxes and literacy tests to keep American citizens from exercising their right to vote. That may not sound like blatant racism to you, but those laws specifically hit the uneducated and poor, which at that time were mostly racial minorities.
Those laws dismantled the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which worked until 2013 to fight the very voter ID law that Texas is using. That was until the Supreme Court cited the Act’s progress since it took effect as reason to do away with it.
Literacy test = going to the DMV for an ID?
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If these laws were to spread, and I assure you that they will now that the Supreme Court has set a precedent, the NAACP suggests that 25 percent of the African-American population will be denied the right to vote across the nation.
10.5 million blacks don't have a valid ID? I find that very hard to believe.
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Posted on 10/20/14 at 12:46 pm to upgrayedd
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the NAACP suggests that 25 percent of the African-American population will be denied the right to vote across the nation.
10.5 million blacks don't have a valid ID? I find that very hard to believe.
It's not because of the ID thing... it's because they're in prison.
Posted on 10/20/14 at 1:04 pm to upgrayedd
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If these laws were to spread, and I assure you that they will now that the Supreme Court has set a precedent, the NAACP suggests that 25 percent of the African-American population will be denied the right to vote across the nation.
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10.5 million blacks don't have a valid ID? I find that very hard to believe.
I got a kick out of the literacy test reference too. Miss King might need to consider taking a debate or writing class before she inevitably drops out of LSU to be a SJW.
How in the actual frick can the NAACP produce that sort of number? Are they only counting the 18+ black population?
If you're that damn apathetic about adhering to basic civilian practices (e.g. obtaining a valid form of ID) then there really is no reason why you should vote.
This post was edited on 10/20/14 at 1:22 pm
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