Posted on 12/20/2014 9:28:06 PM PST by lowbridge
The ACLU lawsuit was filed on behalf of the Missouri NAACP and the district's black residents, according to an ACLU press release. The complaint charges that the at-large voting system violates the Voting Rights Act, as it “impermissibly denies African-American voters an equal opportunity to participate in the political process and to elect representatives of their choice.”
While more than three-fourths of the district's students are black, the area's voting-age population is majority-white. The ACLU suit contends that the district's at-large system results in the black vote getting drowned out. It calls for a new system where the district is broken down into sub-regions, each of which would elect one person to the district school board.
“Elected officials in the Ferguson-Florissant School District have not been responsive to the particularized needs of the African-American community," the complaint reads. "For example, the Board has been insufficiently attentive to issues of educational equity facing African-American students in the District."
(Excerpt) Read more at huffingtonpost.com ...
2010 census for Ferguson, nearly 85% white and just over 10% black. If those who choose to seek racial “balance” in voting, they already have it. Using the student population’s racial makeup is misleading (shocking, I know).
According to the ACLU, is there anyone who does NOT discriminate against African-Americans?
Give them time, just give them time.
Where do these idiots get their “standing” to bring these lawsuits. This has no effect on the retards down at the aclu.
Yakima, Washington has a large Mexican population but never one on the city council.
ACLU is trying to get the city broken into districts so there can be an other than white on the council.
Note to ACLU: IT’S A SECRET BALLOT!
>>While more than three-fourths of the district’s students are black, the area’s voting-age population is majority-white.<<
As long as blacks are killing blacks and murdering black babies, they won’t live long enough to vote.
>>the Board has been insufficiently attentive to issues of educational equity facing African-American students in the District.<<
Equal opportunity does NOT mean equal results.
I has a liberal tell straight to my face that blacks cannot be racist... This is what happens when people try to justify the unjustifiable in their lives, like abortion for instance.
Fact is blacks are not only racist against whites, but they also are against their own.
Let the minority become the majority by moving around the board pieces until they are satisfied with the outcome. The ACLU is yet another enemy of this country
Time for whites to move out of there NOW.
Who voted for Sharpton?
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