[PapaBear3625]

A law that should have had a sunset provision. Once the more egregious state laws restricting black voting and keeping black persons from office were eliminated, the blacks and other minorities should have been allowed to sink or swim on their own merits.

It was scheduled to sunset in 2007. Bush signed the bill to renew it for another 25 years

[RobbyS]

That took courage /sarc. The problem is that it only fans the resentment. The black community is desperately trying to find a scapegoat for their failure to rise in our society as, say, the Korean Americans have.