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 ...
Seems to me that we have long since gotten it right concerning the “All men are created equal” part and the voting rights act is redundant.
Anybody have a list of the counties presently doing this? Anybody? Anybody?
Let me guess: You're from Northeastern PA?
(had a roommate from there who used to say that)
You speak Scrantonese?!
I had one black student tell me that after their right to vote would be taken away there would be a national attempt to reinstall slavery.
He swears to me this is true.
The failure to have the characters speak the local dialect is the one great disappointment of “the office.” But, then again, subtitles would be irritating. :^D
Geez, if he believes that kind of insanity, he probably even believes that the Jena 6 are victims of imjustice!
Damn The Office.
People aren’t allowed to speak bad Pennsylvania Dutch without referencing Scranton? There are plenty of towns in eastern Pennsylvania that make Scranton look like a booming metropolis, and there are plenty of people in those towns who can’t properly pronounce “hey now.”
We should remove their right to vote democrat. In 50 years from now there will be many more black people in America, many more will live in two parent families and not only making more money but seeing a reduction in crime.
The legend that I find most disturbing is that Hillary Clinton is the “smartest woman in America.”
I live near Benton PA you know the little town in the endless mountains where every last name in the phone book is the same.
He swears to me this is true.
I had a similar situation at a customer site where this black woman had been crying all morning after the election results where President Bush had been reelected, had been announced. She loudly complained that "Bush was going to reinstitute slavery!" She knew that, because her husband, a union shop foreman, had told her so.
Mark
I'm sure Bush had his fingers crossed when he signed it.
After all, he and Rove tried to wipe out New Orleans with there hurricane machine and blew up the levees to kill blacks
I guess he does not realize he has been and still is a slave on the Democrat Plantation
“Voting Rights Act” is a redundant “feel good” piece of legislation that isn’t needed any more.
I would feel far better if the government spent their time and resources going after the fraud and corruption in going after the various boards of election in many of the heavily blue cities.
It took me 12 years to change my voter registration status in Erie County New York, because the party I wanted to be affiliated was not the one controlling the voting booths and the registration process. They lost my paper work 12 years in a row.
I actually know where that is. Sometimes on my way to and from college I’d take random detours off 80 and just drive around. I don’t remember it being more than a few blocks, but it’s pretty standard.
I was recently told by an educated successful black man that aids was invented to kill all black people.
He really believes it!!!!!!!!!!
Tell him it will occur in 2008 so he better get out of the country now.
IT’S TRUE! I heard it at the skull-and-bones-bildeberger-trilateral-commission super secret meeting. /s
You are right,the town its self is small but a nice little town with friendly folks.I have lived in this area all 54 years except for six I spent in the service.I live up the side of the red rock mountain out side town with my wife,my guns and a 4 wheel drive.Also the dog and a few bears in the woods.
Be quiet!!!!!!!
If that leaks out you must turn in your Dick Cheney secret decoder ring.
Alert Quannelle X!
A fundraising opportunity no doubt.
I’ve heard the AIDS story too; invented in a top secret Maryland lab to kill blacks and homosexuals. Also heard that after slavery is brought back, those blacks not strong enough to work would be taken to concentration camps and killed.
Along with Rove and Bush causing nine-eleven, these stories are widely believed among the poor and ill-educated.
We are genuinely faced with a large population of uneducated and semi-civilized (but quite well fed) Americans.
Add to that the growing legions of un-assimilated illegals -- no wonder ignorance is the new hip!
It makes for a stronger nation knowing that illiterates (of all races and genders) are allowed to vote.
Judging by the low voter turnout of blacks at the polls...wonder why they are even concerned w voting rights.
WHAT is wrong with literacy tests? Hurts the DemocRATS voter turnout too much? After all, don’t you have to pass special tests, to carry a concealed weapon? What about the 2nd Amendment?
Hey Popman,
Sheeeeiiiiittttttt!!!!! Bush framed O.J. (satire)
Respectfully,
NSNR
Congresswoman Maxine Waters went on a tirade many years ago that crack cocaine was introduced by the CIA into inner cities to destroy the black community.
Great idea... that would shut out most of the liberally educated high school and college students under 35...
Since AIDS is a behaviorally spread disease, this is a comment of the left's own perception of the behavior of blacks.
That's only half of it. The other is that the advice to use condoms is part of a genocidal plot to wipe out minorities. (By preventing them from reproducing.)
IIRC, it was the CDC that did a study about a decade or so ago about all this. It found that this wasn't a phenomenon that could be blamed on lack of education; something like a third of well-educated blacks believed this stuff.
Didn't Reagan secretly fund that project?
After all he personally caused AIDS to spread across the globe!
(rolling eyes)
I hate to tell you this, but the Voting Rights Act contains a ban on all literacy tests, as well as a requirement that states provide bilingual ballots.
“Anybody have a list of the counties presently doing this? Anybody? Anybody?”
A few Democrat districts in Ohio if I recall correctly. Then they blamed the Republicans. That is why Wolfie wouldn’t call Ohio for Bush even after he was up 100,000 votes and Republican districts didn’t come in yet.
I think you could literally write a book filled with nothing but Maxine Waters gems. My all-time favorite :
“I have to march because my mother could not have an abortion.” — Maxine Waters, speaking at an abortion rights rally.
Hayna is a NEPA (Scranton) expression that means “isn’t it” or ‘ain’t it”, to signify agreement at the end of a sentence. Sometimes it’s said “hayna or no”
HRC is descended from Scrantonians; Hugh Rodham is buried there.
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.”
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