What is the fuss about voter supression about?

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You're naively assuming that they want to learn from past mistakes, or even see them as mistakes. Available evidence suggests that this is not the case.

Why am I naiv? I guess there is simply a cultural difference here. I live in a country in which the dreamish concept of a "glorious past" is considered to be a scam used by the most vial and thugish criminals in politics.

I didn't intent to create offense, TGAC. I used that particular word because there's ample evidence that racism is alive and well in some parts of the U.S..

Learning from the past is part of our culture, especialy since our past is almoust completly filled with very horrific events.

So I would have guessed that in the southern states of the US, something as racialy based discrimination, which is today frauned uppon by the entire world, is seen as a very dark and horrific chapter of the past. At least in the state institutions because I am aware that the population sees things differently.

You know, I don't doubt that there are southerners who feel that way - certainly we have seen our share here who are not bigoted. But there are others who are still racist - and while you don't see the overt racism in politics that existed in our past, where laws directly targeted the hated minority de jure, you do see attempts to pass laws that indirectly target those same minorities while not glaringly appearing to do so. Poll taxes. Literacy requirements for voting. Vastly longer sentencing for crack cocaine compared to powder cocaine. The list goes on and on.

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I didn't intent to create offense, TGAC. I used that particular word because there's ample evidence that racism is alive and well in some parts of the U.S..

Non taken.

I was a aware of that, what I was simply not aware of before I was corrected here by Chuck, min, you and others is that even the political institutions did not take the task of learning from past mistakes seriously.

You know, I don't doubt that there are southerners who feel that way - certainly we have seen our share here who are not bigoted. But there are others who are still racist - and while you don't see the overt racism in politics that existed in our past, where laws directly targeted the hated minority de jure, you do see attempts to pass laws that indirectly target those same minorities while not glaringly appearing to do so. Poll taxes. Literacy requirements for voting. Vastly longer sentencing for crack cocaine compared to powder cocaine. The list goes on and on.

Yes, and I was not aware that this kind of institutionalised discrimination extended into the political institutions.

[Minimalist]

To be honest I am more in a state of disbelief and shock.
I am aware of the problems in the South and it`s history and I grew up in a society which made learning from historic mistakes part of it`s culture both in the institutions and in society.

The American south...and the douchebag republicunts who run it...are busy denying that any historic mistakes were made. I understand your shock and disbelief. You come from a region where rationality is valued more than belief in ancient superstition.