(August 14, 2013 at 3:30 pm)Minimalist Wrote:Quote:but I do not believe that any Southern state or better put: any governor and goverment of a Southern state, will risk the bad press resulting out of fixing a voting commission and voting requirements in such a way that people are denied the right to vote on the basis of color.
Think again.
Quote:On Monday, North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory ® signed into law a massive voter suppression bill compiling numerous different provisions used to restrict voting in other states. Among other things, the bill includes a strict voter ID law, which will reduce turnout among minority, low-income and student voters. It will cut a full week of early voting, which is likely to depress turnout among low-income and African American voters. And it will prohibit certain kinds of voter registration drives, which tend to register low-income and minority voters.
Students, low-income voters and racial minorities, of course, tend to vote for Democrats. McCrory, and the lawmakers behind this bill, are Republicans.
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.
I am aware that this culture of learning has not been implemented as much as here in in Germany and that it not reached the population of the concerned states in the US, but I had at least expected the institutions to have undergone a process of learning instead of reinterducing a sceem which would recreate a past mistake.
