The racism in voting rights -- Robert Robb

[Bluemoon_Rising]

The racism in voting rights
1965 act is outdated and outmoded, but who dares touch it? Not Congress

Robert Robb
Republic columnist
Aug. 9, 2006 12:00 AM

The Voting Rights Act is widely thought to prohibit the various techniques that some states, mostly southern ones, employed to prevent minorities, principally Blacks, from voting.

In fact, as enacted in 1965, that was its intention, and it succeeded in substantially broadening the franchise.

That national commitment to eliminate barriers to voting remains, and hence the recent extension of the act for another 25 years was generally celebrated and considered a good thing.

http://www.azcentral.com/news/opinions/columns/articles/0809robb09.html

[DesertFox]

The black victim establishment isn't the only one that reaps gigantic rewards from the myth that nothing has changed in America in 40 years. That whole inward- looking, backward-looking, resentment-fueled thing is Marxian to the core and I'm afraid we'll never be rid of it since it's the devil's own idea.





More bones for youse at FISTED

[Bluemoon_Rising]

Yep. It's a friggin' white elephant here to stay forever.

You've heard my opinion on this before. Extraordinary civil rights protection legislation is always a bad idea. Once enacted, you never get rid of it. It is the worst mischief. If this nation had followed Booker T. Washington's game plan, this nation would have successfully resolved the lingering social and political problems of slavery decades ago. And it would have done so with a lot less grief and governmental activism.

Black America never really needed lefty’s help anyway. It was doing just fine by the 1940s. It’s families were intact and it had managed to build a respectable entrepreneurial and educational culture within its own community the old-fashioned way, the American way. Then Uncle Sam showed up, and a significant segment of the black community has been mired in generational poverty, illegitimacy and dependency ever since.

These sort of things just can't be fixed by govnerment. A people just have to come into their own over time with hard work and determination.

[BarkleUSA]

Who could oppose something called the “Voter Rights Act”?

Reminds me of Clinton referring to raising taxes as “Revenue Enhancement”.

I suppose as long as it actually diminishes Democrat’s political power by widely diluting their voting strength (by concentrating it all in fewer, racially protected districts) then it’s just as well no one has the political courage to do what’s right and get rid of it.

As for the bi-lingual ballots that’s just nuts. If you have to demonstrate proficiency in English to be a citizen AND you have to be a citizen to vote, then the only possible justification for bi-lingual ballots is to enable election fraud.

J’ever wonder why there’s such a lack of “common sense” in bureaucratic policies?