(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.
