When he asked the grandfather at the end and he knew all the answers it proved to me that schools haven’t been teaching history for a long time. I know we can’t have literacy tests, but you should be able to answer those basic questions before you’re allowed to vote. If they made you answer those types of BASIC questions before a you could vote, “The 0ne” would be back in Chicago organizing riots.
The logic we are given for not having literacy tests to vote is rather flawed. As long as people who are uneducated, ill-informed and mis-informed continue to vote they will always have representation that does nothing to help them become educated and well-informed. The people they elect are the ones who are best at manipulating the uneducated, ill-informed and mis-informed. Those politicians have no motivation to change that.
We’ve already been though that. The testing was found to cause blacks to not be qualified to vote. I am curious as to what the questions really were on that test.