Column – Voting Rights Act must never be nixed
March 7, 2013 at 6:00 pm in Alexandria Echo Press
Antonin Scalia should do the country a favor and resign from his lifelong job as U.S. Supreme Court justice. Recently, Scalia described the 1965 Voting Rights Act as a “continuation of racial entitlement.” Continue Reading
Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything. Joseph Stalin
So we got a Spanish company (owned by George Soros) counting the votes.
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As Abe Lincoln once said “Don’t believe everything you read on the Internet”
http://www.snopes.com/politics/romney/votingmachines.asp
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As the kids say, “OMG!” Another highly emotional Friday night rant from Mr. Dahlman, replete with references to murdered civil rights workers fifty years ago, which have nothing whatsoever to do with the issue before the Supreme Court now. It’s not 1964 anymore, Mr. Dahlman.
I’m no expert on the subject (which puts me at least on an even footing with Mr. Dahlman), but my understanding is that Shelby County, Alabama is seeking to challenge section five of the Voting Rights Act. Section five requires a number of states in the south and some other jurisdicitions to get the permission of the federal government to make any change whatsoever to their local voting laws, even though the desired effects of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 have been achieved. In fact, most of these states have far better minority voting participation than their counteparts in the north. Yet, the federal government still has its hands in this despite there really being no need for it. This fear of “backsliding” is unfounded and iirrational. I really can’t blame the southern states for objecting to the continuation of section five and resenting the attitudes of people like Dahlman in the north. The South is a very different place than it was a half century ago.
Mr. Justice Scalia is not a racist, nor is he “living in a bubble.” He’s living in modern times, unlike a certain columnist for the Echo Press.
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You have got to be kidding. Have you any idea what the South was like fifty years ago? State enforced segregation of public institutions like the schools, state permitted segregation of public places like lunch counters, hotels and city buses. Intimidation of blacks and worse by people who had no worry about being called to account for their actions, because their actions were tacitly approved by what passed for as the law. Do you really think that this is how things are in the South today?
To answer your question, yes—I have spent time in the south. Just in the last eighteen months I’ve been in West Virginia, Little Rock, Arkansas, East Texas and South Carolina. More importantly, I’ve spent the last 32 years dealing with people in the South every single day and I can personally assure you that the South today is indeed very different than the South of fifty years ago.
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Let me guess; you’re white. You: ” Nothing to see here, folks. No discimination at all, how do people come up with this anyway? Why, I traveled all over the South and never had any problems”. Yeah, right.
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NAACP founded 1909
“There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do do not want to lose their jobs”
Booker T Washington 1911
Just as true today 1913
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Mike, the “racism is all in one’s head” argument has been debunked definitively many decades ago as has the “people of color are the ones keeping racism alive and benefit from it” argument. You do realize your quote was over 100 years old, don’t you?
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“…voter-suppression efforts…takes many devious forms: stopping early-day voting options and Election Day voter registration and the requirement for voters to present various kinds of documentation (including photo IDs) before they can vote. The rationale for those efforts is to squelch “voter fraud,” despite the fact that fraud is virtually nonexistent.”
Virtually non-existent? I guess these folks are the only people in the whole United States engaged in voter fraud:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03/11/cincinnati-poll-worker-charged-with-voting-half-dozen-times-in-november/
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It is not suprising that you get your information from fox news. If you have to try and convince your audience that you are “fair and balanced”, you probably are not fair and balanced, that being fox news. The fact that you are bringing up 1 incident in Ohio is evidence that it is virtually non existent. If the article was titled “200,000 charged in voter fraud in OH” we would have a problem. Sorry bud.
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You gave me quite a chuckle with that last one, Jason. Yes, 200,000 people charged with voter fraud in Ohio would be quite a story.
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We Republicans believe in constitutional originalism. Sorry ladies and minorities, but you can’t vote, no matter what those librul treehuggers says!
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The left will argue and argue even when facts are presented that I think they will soon argue that 2+2 is not 4.
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