“The case could damage the Obama administration, says Mr. Lichtman at American University. But he also argues that most Americans understand that the Voting Rights Act was intended to correct gross and historic injustices, not nit-pick along partisan lines.
“You can try to force [the Voting Rights Act] to be equal, but it’s not,” he says. “If these are the worst examples you can find, then, by God, white people in America are pretty safe.”
This is a damning statement.
It completely trashes equal protection under the law.
In this case, it was a heavily black democrat area and voting block. It leaves me with the impression that these scumbags consider black democrats to be their property and will treat them as they wish.
I live in a lilly white, predominantly conservative little town with one black family. I wouldn’t accept the klan telling the blacks they couldn’t vote any more than I would accept it if the klan tried to impede my right to vote.
Basically this was more about surpressing republican voters than white voters. Whites were singled out because the racist black pampers are to stupid to recognize that white voters in that precinct were probably voting for Obama anyway.
“This is a damning statement.
It completely trashes equal protection under the law.”
It does indeed. I love the use of the term “nitpick.” If the skin colors of those involved in the Philadelphia intimidation case had been reversed, NAACP, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson would have been having a field day with it. Then imagine the Bush administration electing not to prosecute it on grounds it was a “nitpicking” case. There probably would have been riots across the nation.
Plus it's highly racist.
The point isn't the severity of the incident, it's the philosophy of allowing a culture to develop that believes it is OK.