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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You are right,the town its self is small but a nice little town with friendly folks.I have lived in this area all 54 years except for six I spent in the service.I live up the side of the red rock mountain out side town with my wife,my guns and a 4 wheel drive.Also the dog and a few bears in the woods.
Be quiet!!!!!!!
If that leaks out you must turn in your Dick Cheney secret decoder ring.
Alert Quannelle X!
A fundraising opportunity no doubt.
I’ve heard the AIDS story too; invented in a top secret Maryland lab to kill blacks and homosexuals. Also heard that after slavery is brought back, those blacks not strong enough to work would be taken to concentration camps and killed.
Along with Rove and Bush causing nine-eleven, these stories are widely believed among the poor and ill-educated.
We are genuinely faced with a large population of uneducated and semi-civilized (but quite well fed) Americans.
Add to that the growing legions of un-assimilated illegals -- no wonder ignorance is the new hip!
It makes for a stronger nation knowing that illiterates (of all races and genders) are allowed to vote.
Judging by the low voter turnout of blacks at the polls...wonder why they are even concerned w voting rights.
WHAT is wrong with literacy tests? Hurts the DemocRATS voter turnout too much? After all, don’t you have to pass special tests, to carry a concealed weapon? What about the 2nd Amendment?
Hey Popman,
Sheeeeiiiiittttttt!!!!! Bush framed O.J. (satire)
Respectfully,
NSNR
Congresswoman Maxine Waters went on a tirade many years ago that crack cocaine was introduced by the CIA into inner cities to destroy the black community.
Great idea... that would shut out most of the liberally educated high school and college students under 35...
Since AIDS is a behaviorally spread disease, this is a comment of the left's own perception of the behavior of blacks.
That's only half of it. The other is that the advice to use condoms is part of a genocidal plot to wipe out minorities. (By preventing them from reproducing.)
IIRC, it was the CDC that did a study about a decade or so ago about all this. It found that this wasn't a phenomenon that could be blamed on lack of education; something like a third of well-educated blacks believed this stuff.
Didn't Reagan secretly fund that project?
After all he personally caused AIDS to spread across the globe!
(rolling eyes)
I hate to tell you this, but the Voting Rights Act contains a ban on all literacy tests, as well as a requirement that states provide bilingual ballots.
“Anybody have a list of the counties presently doing this? Anybody? Anybody?”
A few Democrat districts in Ohio if I recall correctly. Then they blamed the Republicans. That is why Wolfie wouldn’t call Ohio for Bush even after he was up 100,000 votes and Republican districts didn’t come in yet.
I think you could literally write a book filled with nothing but Maxine Waters gems. My all-time favorite :
I have to march because my mother could not have an abortion. — Maxine Waters, speaking at an abortion rights rally.
Hayna is a NEPA (Scranton) expression that means “isn’t it” or ‘ain’t it”, to signify agreement at the end of a sentence. Sometimes it’s said “hayna or no”
HRC is descended from Scrantonians; Hugh Rodham is buried there.
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