Harvard students sit the 1964 Louisiana Literacy Test

Daily Mail ^ | 12 Nov 2014 | David Mccormack

[CodeToad]

WOW! REALLY! MORE LARGE FONT FROM YOU BECAUSE YOU THINK YOUR COMMENTS ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT?? HOW ARROGANT, AND ANNOYING TO PHONE READERS.

[rdl6989]

I confess I had to look up the word “eidolons”.

[Grams A]

IMO this is all bogus. They should have given them the test without any explanation as to its source or original reason for the test. It’s actually quite simple providing you can read and follow directions.

[rightwingcrazy]

Maybe because you’re not obsessed with them. That’s a good thing.

[jurroppi1]

“eidolons” interesting word, thanks for enlightening me :).

[GOPJ]

You're right. These ‘literacy tests’ were designed and administrated by democrat racists to deny blacks the right to vote.

J Gruber and MIT would have been right at home with the democrat liars and thugs of that time too.. Same tactics, same excuses just different victims. Then it was blacks - today it's traditional Americans.

Thugs and liars... always democrats.

[mellow velo]

Louisiana had Democrat Governors without interruption from April 1877 to March 1980! (according to a quick wiki check)

I'm sure the State Legislature probably mirrored that "trend" to a large extent, as well.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Exactly. The 1964 Literacy Test was implemented by DEMOCRATS to stay in power through fraudulent means. Opposing ID laws is a way for DEMOCRATS to stay in power through fraudulent means too. Some things never change.

[Himyar]

Just shows that Harvard folks aren’t as smart as they think they are. I think the test isn’t that hard. Wrong to use for allowing people to vote, but geesh, you’d think our “betters” would be able to pass it.

[clintonh8r]

Well, class, what can we learn from this? Beuller? Beuller? Beuller?

1. Democrats are vote-suppressing racists.

2. Chip and Muffy aren't nearly as "gifted" as their parents and their Harvard administrators tell them they are....

[BRL]

Now give the test to a bunch of homeschooled 9th graders and see if they do better than the harvard students

[Idaho_Cowboy]

If you can’t use big words, use BIG words...

[defconw]

That one would get me. :)

[Mastador1]

One question I found dating back in the 1870s was...”How many bubbles are there in a bar of soap?”

Why, mista massa da aint no bubbles in a bar a soap, all da bubbles be in da watta!

[rightwingcrazy]

thanks for enlightening me

A pleasure. I thought I was too busy clinging to my Bibles and guns to do that ;)

[CodeToad]

I guess it takes a real lonely person to demand attention...that or a flamboyant homosexual. Same thing.

[bgill]

At the very end of the video is the zinger for why this article was written. The black guy at the end is against voter ID.

[HangnJudge]

One question I found dating back in the 1870s was...”How many bubbles are there in a bar of soap?”

Zero
To get more, one needs to add water

[maryz]

Cornelia Otis Skinner wrote an essay on her own registering to vote in New York (she'd never voted before, but definitely wanted to vote for the repeal of Prohibition!). She had to take a literacy test as did everyone else, regardless of education.

It was a straight basic literacy test: it gave a paragraph on Francis Scott Keyes and The Star-Spangled Banner, beginning "Francis Scott Keyes wrote The Star-Spangled Banner." The first question was "Who wrote The Star-Spangled Banner?"

Nothing wrong with literacy tests per se, but some of the southern states really did abuse the concept.

[bgill]

One ninny asked how to draw a line around something. Poor thing needs to take Circles 101.