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.
Dominion software already does that...
This proves that even a college law professor can be a dumbass.
I would have expected them to call for a factor of five-thirds - maybe they just rounded up. Bogus at any rate, and pretty much irrelevant, since they pretty much just make up the numbers in the urban precincts as it is.
Very interesting data point on the decline of democracy. Our Republic died some time ago.
Do we go mob rule and fracture or throne rule followed by wars of succession?
Will be an interesting book a few hundred years from now.
Move to Wyoming. It’s a beautiful state. Idaho, Montana and North Dakota are beautiful and rich in history.
Changing the Constitution is easy, go for it.
Obviously giving black people twice the vote is going overboard. Why not just give a white person 3/5 the vote of a black person? “3/5” has a nice feel to it.
Will the “one drop” rule apply?
What if one of your parents is black and one is white? Will you get fair vote apportionment?
So many details to work out.
Hey why not just round up all the white folks and send them back to Scandinavia...
Twice?? Why reduce it to just twice?
One does right a wrong by doing another wrong.
Too bad this idiot law professor has no common sense or understanding of law - right and wrong.
They already have that privilege.
Why would they agree to count their votes less than they already count them?
No kidding, in Detroit their votes count dozens of times..
I’ll settle for 2 votes any day, that’d be a bargain!
The Union armies had from 2,500,000 to 2,750,000 men. Their losses, by the best estimates:
The Confederate strength, known less accurately because of missing records, was from 750,000 to 1,250,000. Its estimated losses:
Battle deaths: 110,070 Disease, etc.: 250,152 Total: 360,222
Battle deaths: 94,000 Disease, etc.: 164,000 Total: 258,000
If the leftists want retaliation towards white Europeans for a slavery that ended 155 years ago are they ready for the inevitability of white Europeans deciding it is time to get their reprisal?
What a complete display of ignorance.
And Chicago, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Baltimore and a huge number of other Third World Sh*thole cities. Nothing new at all.
All true.
What millennials don't know, because the evil left has dumbed them down, is that a majority of all Europeans were slave serfs from late antiquity up to until the 1850s.
Serfdom was the status of many peasants under feudalism, specifically relating to manorialism, and similar systems. It was a condition of debt bondage and indentured servitude with similarities to slavery, which developed during the Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages in Europe and lasted in some countries until the mid-19th century.
As with slaves, serfs could be bought, sold, or traded, with some limitations: they generally could be sold only together with land (with the exception of the kholops in Russia and villeins in gross in England who could be traded like regular slaves), could be abused with no rights over their own bodies, could not leave the land they were bound to, and could marry only with their lord's permission. Serfs who occupied a plot of land were required to work for the lord of the manor who owned that land. In return, they were entitled to protection, justice, and the right to cultivate certain fields within the manor to maintain their own subsistence. Serfs were often required not only to work on the lord's fields, but also in his mines and forests and to labor to maintain roads. The manor formed the basic unit of feudal society, and the lord of the manor and the villeins, and to a certain extent the serfs, were bound legally: by taxation in the case of the former, and economically and socially in the latter.
source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serfdom
It’s already considered racist to ask them to show ID when voting.
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