Posted on 02/26/2020 10:59:52 AM PST by yesthatjallen
As we head back to South Carolina, the state that fought to protect the white primary until the 1950s, it’s as if black voters don’t matter – again
In 1896, a moment marked by increased lynchings, violence and disfranchisement, South Carolina added to the woes and created the white primary. The law, which the rest of the one-party south would adopt throughout the Jim Crow era, said only white people could vote in the Democratic primary election.
White people, mostly men, would alone choose who would go on to the general election in November. Then, and only then could African Americans and others, who had managed to squeeze through the array of voter suppression tactics such as the poll tax and the literacy test, cast their meaningless ballots. But make no mistake, the real contest was in the primary, and whites had already determined the ultimate winner.
In 2020, nearly 60 years after the supreme court outlawed the white primary, our political establishment has protected and resurrected some hackneyed version of this discredited practice. And as we head back to South Carolina this weekend, the state that fought to protect the white primary until the 1950s, it’s as if black voters don’t matter. Again.
SNIP
A real democracy is one that allows all Americans, not just one group, to choose its leaders. It is not the one that, in 2016, yielded a result where whites were the only group to vote in the majority for the incompetence, misogyny, racism, xenophobia and corruption of Donald Trump.
A real democracy deserves better.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Carol Anderson is the Charles Howard Candler professor of African American Studies at Emory University and the author of White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide and One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy. She is a contributor to the Guardian.
And what is the methodology being used to suppress black votes? Does she share that information anywhere in the article?
I am not going to soil myself by reading her screed. But ... SC has long been about 30% ‘people of color.’ WHAT is her point? That Demoncrats rig primaries???
LOL! I couldn’t beleive the amount of pandering going on in the DUHbait last night. One would think it’s friggin’ 1860 listening to those assclown contestants.
You mean all white Democrat presidential candidates?
How crazy can people get?
Ignorant, and apparently willfully illiterate.
Where? What a ridiculous, biased headline. I am not going to read it either.
A real democracy is one that allows all Americans, not just one group, to choose its leaders...
No BITCH.
A republic shouldn’t recognize “groups” and the majority of voters should ALWAYS get their choice for congressman or for their state’s EC votes.
WTF is it with these people?
Let’s take it to the extreme.
Did Americans of Irish descent get their say the past time around? Croatian? Italian? German? Polish? Albanian? Chinese? Japanese?
So STFU and stop crying like a b.tch.
Alright, bad habits are coming back..
Time to take a time out before real cussing and Very Real banning begins...
ciao
She doesn’t know what she is talking about.
A real democracy is one that allows all Americans, not just one group, to choose its leaders.
Who voted for Obama?
There weren’t any blacks worthy of votes, that did not kneel to get a head in their careers, or not suggest assenine ideas for the sake of publicity, or continue ye olde racebait!
The author is an ignorant idiot. Leftists project little fantasy visions into each other’s minds and then try to live in them while closing their eyes, plugging their ears, and humming loudly.
If she is a professor of African American studies, then what is her qualification for duscussing White Rage? What is her point of reference? What does she know about being White?
She is merely appropriating white culture in order to become rich and famous.
Ho hum.
One of these days all the white guilt / white privilege nonsense is not going to work at all any more.
Nah nah - it’s get the popcorn time!
“ African Americans comprise more than 27% of South Carolina’s population. Equally important, 78% of black adults in the state are registered Democrats and they make up about 60% of the Democratic electorate. They face a candidate slate, however, that has been shaped, carved up, and emboldened or weakened by a virtually all-white Iowa caucus and New Hampshire primary. By the time of the Nevada caucus, so much of the winner/loser narrative had already been cast.”
A member of the race of professional victims using their affirmative action status job to write a screed from their fantasy beliefs.
The Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, founded by the Greenville native and former presidential candidate, and several other groups helped to register voters over the last year, Jackson said during a visit to The Greenville News on Monday.
He said the groups had gone over their goals of 20,000 new registrations for college and high school students and 100,000 overall.
Jesse Jackson says his coalition has helped number of nonwhite voters in SC pass 1 million
My guess is that only white males are options in this Primary.
Bloomie, Biden, Buttgig, Bernie, etc.
In other words - Democrats are Racists.
(An idea I can get behind)
It’s scary that something so detached from reality is presented as true and established fact.
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