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RE: Ku Klux Kourt Kills King's Dream Law
June 26, 2013 at 10:06 pm
I am glad Provision 4 as it stands was struck down.....
First move of Congress, keep Texas at the same level of scrutiny and elevate Arizona to the full level instead of just tier 3 because fuck Arizona.
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RE: Ku Klux Kourt Kills King's Dream Law
June 26, 2013 at 10:09 pm
I couldn't agree more. Far too many redneck xtian asswipes running AZ into the ground.
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RE: Ku Klux Kourt Kills King's Dream Law
June 27, 2013 at 12:31 am
(June 25, 2013 at 11:35 pm)cato123 Wrote: Jesus isn't coming tomorrow and neither is Jim Crow.
Jim Crow is here today. What do you think voter ID laws are? They're specifically designed to discourage minorities and the poor from voting.
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RE: Ku Klux Kourt Kills King's Dream Law
June 27, 2013 at 12:37 am
(June 26, 2013 at 1:18 am)Minimalist Wrote: I think we'll soon see. In 2006 the vote to extend the Voting Rights Act was 98-0 in the Senate and 393-33 in the House. (One of the 33 was the Divine Tiberius' hero, Ron Paul, who, while he is a scumbag is at least a consistent scumbag.)
Of course, that was 4 years before the Tea Bagging Shitheads lost their ever-loving minds because a black guy got elected president. I don't think they are over it yet.
I don't think we'll have long to wait.
If only the Republicans had a moderate like George W Bush to lead them. You know, the guy who used to lead the right wing of the party. The same guy who "was proud to sign the re-authorization of the Voting Rights Act" in 2006.
My how quickly political parties lurch to the right these days, so much that you pine for the people you used to consider extreme right wing.
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RE: Ku Klux Kourt Kills King's Dream Law
June 27, 2013 at 1:01 am
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(June 27, 2013 at 12:37 am)DeistPaladin Wrote: (June 26, 2013 at 1:18 am)Minimalist Wrote: I think we'll soon see. In 2006 the vote to extend the Voting Rights Act was 98-0 in the Senate and 393-33 in the House. (One of the 33 was the Divine Tiberius' hero, Ron Paul, who, while he is a scumbag is at least a consistent scumbag.)
Of course, that was 4 years before the Tea Bagging Shitheads lost their ever-loving minds because a black guy got elected president. I don't think they are over it yet.
I don't think we'll have long to wait.
If only the Republicans had a moderate like George W Bush to lead them. You know, the guy who used to lead the right wing of the party. The same guy who "was proud to sign the re-authorization of the Voting Rights Act" in 2006.
My how quickly political parties lurch to the right these days, so much that you pine for the people you used to consider extreme right wing.
It's funny for how conservative I viewed Bush, he actually managed to sign a lot of liberal legislation he never bragged about (unlike another US conservative President)/..it's like he just did not care one way or the other and simply went "What the Hell"
Well beyond state control and killing "terrorists" and oil and torture and indefinite imprisonment....wait we still have that....shit....well hopefully a little less on the torture.
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RE: Ku Klux Kourt Kills King's Dream Law
June 27, 2013 at 2:39 am
(June 27, 2013 at 12:31 am)DeistPaladin Wrote: (June 25, 2013 at 11:35 pm)cato123 Wrote: Jesus isn't coming tomorrow and neither is Jim Crow. Jim Crow is here today.
This statement is no different than Glenn Beck comparing the recent IRS supposed scandal to the Holocaust. Or the frequent use of the word war to describe contention on some issue: war on drugs, war on coal, war on women, war on gays, war on Christmas, etc.
Are there bigots and even racists today? Of course. I'll even go so far as to state that a vast majority of these people are politically affiliated with the Republican party. Do some states attempt to enact voting legislation specifically designed to hamper minorities and the impovershed from voting? Without a doubt. Guess what? They don't succeed because of the VRA, with or without the preclearance provision which I demonstrated earlier (OH and PA last year). The data doesn't lie:
Quote:There are probably states now, based on the data above that should be subject to provisions of the Act, that currently are not.
http://blogs.mprnews.org/newscut/2013/06...ty-voters/
Saying Jim Crow exists today in this context cheapens the very meaning of what Jim Crow laws were and the damage done to those affected the same way flippant comparisons to the Holocaust or war do. Law enforcement doesn't turn a blind eye to lynchings, there is no legally enforced segregation, and there is no social tollerance for businesses that refuse service on the basis of race. Yet you proclaim that Jim Crow exists.
Google 'racism in professional sports'. Mostly what you'll find for the U.S. are stories about changing names and logos of franchises because they are deemed insensitive. The stories from Europe will give example of people throwing bananas on the pitch and openly verbally abusing players (player to player racial incidents are not uncommon). Let a bigot or racist try that here and they'll likely get the shit kicked out of them by someone of their own race. Yet Jim Crow is here today.
I encourage you to rethink your position on this. If you don't and continue to vent your anger towards people like Justice Kennedy or the bigots that do exist instead of the asswipes (Ds and Rs) that allowed this to happen then you become part of the problem, not the solution.
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