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.
(Excerpt) Read more at diversityinc.com ...
Don’t democrats vote on Wednesday, the day after Republicans?
From the article: “to blacks being eligible for a $5,000 tax credit based on slave reparations”
^^^^^^^^^ The funny thing is that the idiots at rhe IRS did in fact issue many many $$$$$$$$$$ worth of refunds based on the above. true Story!1 To the tune of 30+ million!!1
Also, happy Thankxgiving.
It was the 26th amendment that lowered the voting age to 18.
Amendment 26 - Voting Age Set to 18 Years. Ratified 7/1/1971.
If you were black and had a college degree, somehow you STILL couldn’t pass the literacy test.
If you were Lil’ Abner, no problem.
Of course in those days no one, black or white, could get through college without knowing how to read. That’s not a statement you can be sure of these days.
I did not believe this could be true. But I checked it out and you are correct. Unbelievable
That’s all well and good, Conspirator, but the really important question is: What are the Illuminati doing about it?
She's a woman? I hadn't heard that legend.
And in the next election she will believe the same story, hook line and sinker, yet again
Well then count that as a new one for me. I grew up in eastern Pennsylvania and, pronounced phoenetically, “hayna” meant just about anything. I believe it was a short and heavily accented version of “hey now.”
Ask him where he heard it. Then play to his paranoia - tell him you need to know so that the leak can be plugged.
I would assume that the one of the languages would be English? Does the Voting Rights Act state the second language that should be used on a bilingual ballot? If not I suggest it be Dadibi!
Being black, I get these crap emails all the time. What bugs me is that these emails are forwarded from people w/educations, including graduate degrees. I just shake my head and wonder wtf these people are thinking, where is their knowledge of history? It’s just stupid and yet people report this stuff to each other as if it were the gospel.
a more wide spread “fact” in the black community is that president bush stole the 2000 election. have had several of my wife’s uncles tell me that bush actually lost the state of florida when the votes were all counted.
Geez, sorry... I went to “da U” in Scranton, and was just a bit nostalgic for the dialect/accent. My only reference to The Office was just that it hadn’t captured the local dialect. It’s like Cheers would be with out the Bostonian.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Around 16 or so years ago in New York City, there was a rumor that an inexpensive soft drink under the brand name "Tropical Fantasy" made "black men sterile". Due to this rumor, the sales of "Tropical Fantasy" soda fell something like 50% in neighborhoods in Harlem and Brooklyn.
There was even a press conference where Dinkins, who was mayor at the time, had to take a swig of Tropical Fantasy to show everyone that it was safe to drink.
Hillarious, if not saddening.
Mark
He swears to me this is true.
I guess its past time that the CIA stop selling drugs in the black community. Look at what its doing to your friend. :-)
But it’s true. Bush lost Florida by -537 votes!
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