Posted on 12/23/2020 10:28:38 AM PST by Signalman
A law school professor called for “vote reparations” for black people to make elections fairer by giving them twice the voting power of other citizens.
"Vote reparations would empower us to replace oppressive institutions with life-affirming structures of economic, social, and political equality," Brandon Hasbrouck, an assistant professor at the Washington and Lee University School of Law, wrote in the Nation last week. "And if our elected representatives did not prioritize this transformational work, we could vote them out."
Hasbrouck, who teaches race relations law and a class on critical race theory, argued that the “core problem” of the United States’s election system is the Electoral College. The professor pointed out that Wyoming and its 580,000 residents are 93% white, but the state gets “three electors because of its two senators and one representative in the House.”
“By comparison, Georgia’s Fifth Congressional District — which includes Atlanta, has 710,000 residents, and is 58 percent Black — has no dedicated electors or senators and can only occasionally overcome the mostly white and conservative votes from elsewhere in the state,” Hasbrouck wrote.
The professor argued the current system devalues black voters and ignores black lives but that it was done this way “by design” to allow for the “endurance of slavery” by the Constitution’s framers.
Hasbrouck said the way to remedy this injustice is with “vote reparations,” which would work “by double-counting ballots cast by all Black residents.”
“Vote reparations should also extend to Native Americans,” Hasbrouck continued. “Slavery is rightly called America’s original sin, but so too was the United States’ genocidal seizure of land from its original inhabitants.”
Hasbrouck said the goal of vote reparations would be to create institutions with “life-affirming structures of economic, social, and political equality,” and he added that politicians who “did not prioritize this transformational work” could more easily be voted out of office.
“Because white votes currently count more than Black ones, double-counting Black votes would restore electoral balance,” Hasbrouck said. “Vote reparations would be a giant step toward remedying our nation’s long history of denying and devaluing Black votes.”
He added: “Even if vote reparations aren’t instituted, Black voters will keep tirelessly dragging our states toward a more perfect union. But just imagine our country if our votes counted twice.”
Washington and Lee University told the Washington Examiner of the post: "Washington and Lee's faculty are individuals who hold and express a variety of opinions, and the university is committed to upholding their right to freedom of expression. Professor Hasbrouck's piece on voting reparations in The Nation was published as part of 'The Argument,' which the publication identifies as 'a column where writers and thinkers propose a provocative idea that may not be politically realizable in the short term but that pushes one to think broader about a pressing issue of public importance.'"
Hasbrouck did not immediately respond to a Washington Examiner request for comment on the article.
Aren’t they already doing that in Detroit?
This is nothing new. In places like Atlanta, Philadelphia and Detroit, black women are already counting votes 100’s of times.
y is this news? As if it could happen.
Didn’t we just witness this? Except it may be more a factor of 3 or 4.
They’re getting even stupider!
Seems like they are already doing this, but more like 10 times each.
Instead of letting them vote twice, why not give them their own cities and see how they do. Oh wait: Chicago, Oakland, Detroit, Atlanta, Baltimore...
If not...then how about we forget trying to right all the wrongs in the past and make a society of mortals doing the best we can.
twice would be an improvement
I got an idea, let’s disenfranchise 85% of the country.
Sheesh.
5.56mm
Move to Somalia. No electoral college, no senators and no mean whites.
Let us know how it goes!!!
They are already doing so. It’s called voter fraud.
Aside from that, these ‘woke’ Marxists are essentially arguing for the old 3/5s rule of the slavery days, but they want to flip that fraction around.
Idiots. Communists.
I was gonna say...didn’t we already solve this unfair math problem? (The 3/5 vote rule.)
This is absolutely the craziest, dumbest thing I’ve heard today. MY people were slaves in Egypt for 400 years, buddy-—should I get to vote twice, in violation of the Constitution of this country? I assure you that none of the people who were slaves here, or slaveowners, are alive today. And we don’t have slavery today. So why do you want to drag that unfortunate piece of history around as baggage forevermore? Do you insist on a permanent victimhood and therefore dependency position for blacks? Because that is certainly what you would get with such ridiculous measures as “blacks get 2 votes in America, and whites only get 1 vote”. And, which blacks would qualify for the 2 votes? Only those with proven descendancy from actual slaves here, or anyone with dark enough skin? You’re a racist ignorant DOPE, and I hope you lose your teaching position so that you won’t be in a situation where you can infect young minds with your stupidity.
“Professor at Washington and Lee University”
Oh Brandon.
Quit and donate everything you have to the poor.
Sounds good. As long as one vote goes to both parties. I think that would be excellent!
“Washington and Lee’s faculty are individuals who hold and express a variety of opinions, and the university is committed to upholding their right to freedom of expression....”
If GPS-guided drones ever become easy to build, leftist college professors and talking heads should be at the top of the “list”.
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