so that’s where are you smarter than a 5th grader came from?
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This was a hard test? Good grief. It’s not really tricky at all. It just tests your ability to read. I say bring back the literacy test — and make them all like this one. Talk about the racism or prejudice of low expectations. This article, in attacking this literacy test, tells you everything you need to know about the left.
Well, to be truthful, many sharecroppers (whites included) didn’t have much of an education either and it would have difficult for grandmother to do some of the more complicated questions near the bottom.
But that’s the point, it’s a LITERACY test. Not a ALL WHITE PEOPLE ARE BORN KNOWING THIS test.
It was disproportionate because white children (and this is 1964, but many older adults would have been born in the 10’s and 20’s) had a better opportunity to go to school.
Sadly, while I don’t think you should vote if you can’t even read the news or inform yourself, it did affect blacks moreso than whites.
This is too hard for Democrats today.
"Which party currently controls the Senate?"
"How many zeros are there in a trillion?"
What difference does it matter at this time anyway?
The Democrats will thwart ballot language when an initiative gets on the ballot that they don’t like where you vote NO to approve something or YES to end it.
Also, here in Texas there are ballots in Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, English, and possibly other languages. LAWS are only written in one language (English) with certain Latin legal terms borrowed. The specific language of a law means something that is debated by judges when the law is considered. When the voters vote on constitutional amendments that are written in four different languages, which one is the TRUE law? They don’t all say precisely the same thing.
There I said it.
Would this be a bad time to bring up that minorities are given a lower standard to pass to become firemen and policemen? Damn rigged tests.
Double standards still exist but the discrimination goes the other way now.
That test was unfair and requires more than a fifth grade education to perform all correctly. There were some seriously bad people back then trying to stop voting rights.
I always thought that a better voting test would be the 1960s citizenship requirements for naturalization.
Personally, I found the test to be very annoying.
You know, there ought to be a law against such tests.