Yeah, we've all heard the speeches and the news articles:
"One million (or ten million, or a billion) African-Americans were denied their right to vote in Florida in 2000.
No matter what number the libs throw in there, I always come back with: "There is no evidence that even one person, let alone a million, was denied the right to vote in Florida. If a person was properly registered, showed up at the correct polling place during voting hours and cast his ballot according to the instructions, his vote was counted."
The left wants us to believe, absent such evidence, that there were many, many such cases. I saw no instance of a Black person saying something like:
"Yes, I got to the polling place but the white people, led by the sheriff and flanked by police dogs, just would not let me cast my ballot."
The best argument they can come up with is some nonesense about "roadblocks." It is certainly possible that traffic had to be re-routed due to patterns caused by many people attempting to go to a few, select places (the polls) at peak hours. I have encountered "roadblocks" each and every time I've attempted to go to a sporting event, a concert, or a big parade. You get there early, park several blocks away, and walk the rest of the way if you have to.
The liberals foment anger in the Black community by acting like we are still in the 1950s or 1960s and the country still treats minorities the way they were treated in Watts or Selma or Mobile. It is one of the biggest, ugliest lies of the left, and that covers a lot of territory.
I agree with you 100%, TSSYF, and that's generally the feeling I've had about the whole thing. Didn't clintoon and reno announce that the justice dept. was going to "investigate" these allegations? Is there a specific investigation that was carried out that refutes these allegations? Again, it's damned hard to prove a negative, but in the minority community this is yet another conspiracy theory that is taken as fact, like the CIA invented crack to target blacks, or that Jews were the ones that owned the slave ships, or Korean grocery stores are somehow responsible for blacks not doing well etc. etc.