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.
You big silly. Of course those attempts didn’t work. If it’s done ‘right’, there’s no way it would fail and we all know that today’s activists are so much smarter than the old activists of yesterday. Am I right? Heh.
Peach
I know Ruby Freeman? has done this already.
As a general rule, when the police respond to any domestic violence call, and the female complains of an injury of any kind, the man goes to Jail, ANY OTHER MAN would have been Arrested, Charged, All his Guns Taken Away immediately,...
This POS deserves the same treatment as everyone else
If this fessor is an example of higher education, that university needs to be closed.
“...an assistant professor at the Washington and Lee University School of Law...”
It’s in Lexington Virginia.
Robert E Lee was President of that college right after the Civil War ‘til his death.
I’m surprised no one has advocated removing his name from the school and moving his grave off-campus.
IIRC, Lexington is the location of that restaurant that made Sarah Sanders Huckabee leave in the middle of their dinner.
You must have missed it. It’s already been advocated.
I expect it to happen with the next few years.
College professors....just a bunch of turds floating in the cesspools that used to be institutes of higher learning.
What about voters who are part black? Say half or one quarter or 3/8 black?
Fear not, I have a scientific solution.
As the voter casts a vote, an optical scanner measures the color of his skin, and then calculates a vote coefficient. The darker the skin, the higher the vote coefficient. The computer then adds his vote, multiplied by the coefficient, to the tally.
See? Easy.
Furthermore, I think Dominion already has the hardware and software to do all most of this stuff.
“Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.”
― George Orwell
Another “professor” who couldn’t make it in the real world, speaks.
College professors should have their vote reduced by 90%, i.e. 10 College professor votes equal one normal rational citizen’s vote
The Union armies had from 2,500,000 to 2,750,000 men. Their losses, by the best estimates:
Battle deaths: 110,070
Disease, etc.: 250,152
Total: 360,222
The votes of the descendants of the union soldiers killed or wounded in battle should count 2 or 3 times.
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When you can’t do it, teach.
What is the professor's name? Where does he teach? Who does he teach? What does he teach? How is the professor compensated?
What an idiot! The electoral college is the only reason the slave trade and then slavery was abolished.
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