Posted on 11/22/2007 4:58:56 AM PST by flowerplough
There are certain rumors that refuse to die and make the rounds across the Internet--which Al Gore didn't create--every year. From the U.S. government issuing Social Security numbers based on race (false) to blacks being eligible for a $5,000 tax credit based on slave reparations (good luck with that), there are some rumors that resurface like clockwork.
One such rumor, according to various e-mails circulating on the Internet, is the idea that blacks' right to vote will expire when the Voting Rights Act of 1965 expires at year's end.
( ... ) the 15th Amendment, ratified in 1870, ... guaranteed the rights of all citizens over the age of 18 to vote. The 1965 act was designed to combat Jim Crow laws in the South that placed restrictions such as "poll taxes, literacy tests and grandfather clauses," which effectively prevented blacks from voting, according to Snopes.com. And in many Reconstruction-era states throughout the South, the Ku Klux Klan used intimidation and terror to keep blacks away from the voting booths.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 authorized the federal government to send federal registrars to counties where "local registrars refused to accept the registration of black voters, and observers to ensure blacks were allowed to vote and that their votes were counted," according to Snopes.
And yes, the act was originally set to expire this year, which led to a flurry of Internet e-mails rallying a charge to make sure it was renewed. But what some fail to realize is that the Voting Rights Act was already renewed last year by President Bush in a morning ceremony on the White House lawn that was attended by the families of slain civil-rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the late Rosa Parks.
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Seems to me that we have long since gotten it right concerning the “All men are created equal” part and the voting rights act is redundant.
Anybody have a list of the counties presently doing this? Anybody? Anybody?
Let me guess: You're from Northeastern PA?
(had a roommate from there who used to say that)
You speak Scrantonese?!
I had one black student tell me that after their right to vote would be taken away there would be a national attempt to reinstall slavery.
He swears to me this is true.
The failure to have the characters speak the local dialect is the one great disappointment of “the office.” But, then again, subtitles would be irritating. :^D
Geez, if he believes that kind of insanity, he probably even believes that the Jena 6 are victims of imjustice!
Damn The Office.
People aren’t allowed to speak bad Pennsylvania Dutch without referencing Scranton? There are plenty of towns in eastern Pennsylvania that make Scranton look like a booming metropolis, and there are plenty of people in those towns who can’t properly pronounce “hey now.”
We should remove their right to vote democrat. In 50 years from now there will be many more black people in America, many more will live in two parent families and not only making more money but seeing a reduction in crime.
The legend that I find most disturbing is that Hillary Clinton is the “smartest woman in America.”
I live near Benton PA you know the little town in the endless mountains where every last name in the phone book is the same.
He swears to me this is true.
I had a similar situation at a customer site where this black woman had been crying all morning after the election results where President Bush had been reelected, had been announced. She loudly complained that "Bush was going to reinstitute slavery!" She knew that, because her husband, a union shop foreman, had told her so.
Mark
I'm sure Bush had his fingers crossed when he signed it.
After all, he and Rove tried to wipe out New Orleans with there hurricane machine and blew up the levees to kill blacks
I guess he does not realize he has been and still is a slave on the Democrat Plantation
“Voting Rights Act” is a redundant “feel good” piece of legislation that isn’t needed any more.
I would feel far better if the government spent their time and resources going after the fraud and corruption in going after the various boards of election in many of the heavily blue cities.
It took me 12 years to change my voter registration status in Erie County New York, because the party I wanted to be affiliated was not the one controlling the voting booths and the registration process. They lost my paper work 12 years in a row.
I actually know where that is. Sometimes on my way to and from college I’d take random detours off 80 and just drive around. I don’t remember it being more than a few blocks, but it’s pretty standard.
I was recently told by an educated successful black man that aids was invented to kill all black people.
He really believes it!!!!!!!!!!
Tell him it will occur in 2008 so he better get out of the country now.
IT’S TRUE! I heard it at the skull-and-bones-bildeberger-trilateral-commission super secret meeting. /s
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