State Rape 4
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June 25, 2013 at 12:26 pm
Not on women, but after today they’ll have their shot at making Civil War 2 a hot one. It’s open season on voting rights for non-whites in the dirty south and states governed by the Tea Party. And I am equally sure African Americans and everyone else on the other side won’t stand for it. We have two more elections while Obama is in power and it may be up to him to again call on executive power to enforce the franchise. The Supreme Court ruling could be a real watershed moment in domestic relations in this country, a return to very open hostility, an Empowerment of WhiteManistan Act. Rhetorical, do you think Tea Party types and the GOP will be able to restrain themselves from immediate neo-Confederate enactments? I don’t think so.
June 25, 2013 at 1:38 pm
I see that visions of Little Rock dance in your head. I’m not arguing with you. Hell, have you been following what’s going on in North Carolina?
I remember poll taxes. I did have to pay them, but my Daddy used to talk about having paid his.
I was working the polls at a polling place that had four- and five-hour lines in the 2012 election, while the one next door, had 20 minute waits.
The Supreme Court is deludiing itself or lying about things’ having changed. I don’t know and, frankly, don’t care which.
June 25, 2013 at 2:11 pm
Yes, that’s exactly what I mean. The people will come out to vote, particularly if there is legislation enacted against them, and then we’ll see what the south and Tea Partiers do. They going to tell them their papers aren’t in order so they can rig an election for one of their own? You know, this is how big history happens. Doofuses at some place like the SC rationalize their way into something astonishingly bad while pretending there won’t be consequences. One of them announces Congress, or we, had it coming.
June 25, 2013 at 3:33 pm
You are on the mark. They came out in 2012. I certainly hope they come out more in 2014, even though it’s an off-year.
The memory of literacy tests has not faded amongst those who were their victims.