Posted on 11/12/2014 9:08:18 AM PST by maddog55
A group of Harvard students were recently asked by their tutor to sit the 1964 Louisiana Literacy Test - a notorious document with confusing questions that was used to stop black citizens from voting.
Just 50 years ago, states in the South asked voters who couldn't provide proof of a fifth grade education to pass the test in order to be eligible to cast a ballot.
The test was intended to disenfranchise African-Americans, who in order to pass had to correctly answer all 30 questions in 10 minutes.
Despite their Ivy League pedigree, none of the students managed to pass the test and their reactions as they struggled to make sense of the obtuse questions was filmed.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
College: An expensive institution designed to eliminate common sense from those who attend.
Given most people’s error-prone nature, requiring 30 out of 30 on ANYTHING is probably too harsh.
Big whoop. It’s quite easy to fail any test, even simple ones on subjects that you know very well, if you want to.
We don’t have literacy tests any more. They are illegal and have been for decades. What is the purpose of this exercise? The Left are trying to tie voter ID laws to suppression of minority voters similar to these literacy tests.
Ah, this is where Common Core came from!
Some people are still fighting the Civil War it seems.
if you’re white, Christian and male, you might as well just kill yourself so that hopefully it will just satisfy the whole lot of them.
I read the test. I don’t find it to very hard. But then again, I didn’t go to Harvard.
Slavery was brought to this country by LIBERAL DEMOCRATS and liberals want to bring it back. About 99% of the white supremacist movement votes for liberal Dems.
Ooooohhhh. How about if we take away their student ID and then film them while they go vote? Oops. They can!
One question I found dating back in the 1870s was...”How many bubbles are there in a bar of soap?”
I had no problem with this test. It requires following directions in sequence.
If today’s Harvard students cannot pass this test, then most of them should still be in the 7th grade.
Yes, our children are being dumbed down, and no, there is nothing racist about this test.
Anyone with a basic education should be able to pass this.
Doesn’t seem that difficult to me but, should have never been used to qualify one’s right to vote.
Not sure I said that correctly.
White queers, blacks and illegals. Think about it...
Stuck in the past, obsessed with eidolons from a bygone era. I thought that was supposed to be the failing of us conservatives, not our enlightened betters.
“As many as you can make” would be my answer.
Then again, if there isn’t a sudsing agent, it probably won’t be many.
99 out of 100 Harvard students failed the test on how to vote properly... TWICE... and the test was open book, multiple choice.
I thought it was fairly straightforward.
The gal in the black sleeveless top: not guilty (by Cambridge standards)
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