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Posted on 08/10/2005 12:49:07 PM PDT by Crackingham
Passage of the Voting Rights Act in August 1965 was a proud moment in U.S. history. For the first time, millions of African Americans living in the Deep South, who had been excluded from fully participating in the political process for 200 years, were finally enfranchised. The battle to secure those rights cost many lives of both blacks and whites. So why is it that some black leaders have taken the occasion of the 40th anniversary of this seminal event to engage in hate speech?
On Saturday, thousands of activists gathered in Atlanta to commemorate the signing of the Voting Rights Act. Speakers at the rally included House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.; Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga.; Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif.; and entertainers Harry Belafonte, Dick Gregory and Greg Mathis, a Michigan Superior Court judge who stars in his own TV series. But instead of celebrating the triumph of this great law, many -- if not most -- of the speakers used the occasion to try to scare African Americans into thinking the Republicans in Congress and President Bush were about to rescind the protections the Act guarantees.
There was much talk of "stolen" elections. Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., said, "The last two elections were stolen. They were stolen and so we will not rest until we reclaim our democracy, and this is what today is all about." Judge Mathis referred to the 2000 elections as "the biggest election crime in history." He told the enthusiastic crowd that the "thieves" in the Republican Party "need to be locked up." Harry Belafonte warned, "We must stand vigilant, as there are those among us who would steal our liberty and steal our souls."
Belafonte referred to blacks serving in the Bush administration as "black tyrants," and went even farther in an interview with Marc Morano of CNSNews.com. "Hitler had a lot of Jews high up in the hierarchy of the Third Reich," Belafonte told Morano, an anti-Semitic canard meant to smear as neo-Nazi both the Bush administration and the African Americans who serve in it.
You'd think by the vicious rhetoric at the march that President Bush was trying to revoke the Act. Nothing of the sort is true. Most sections of the landmark legislation are permanent, including the ban on literacy tests, once a favorite method to keep qualified black voters from exercising their right to vote. Certain provisions of the Act -- most notably Section 5, which requires covered jurisdictions to submit even the most minor changes in voting procedures to the Department of Justice for pre-clearance -- will expire in 2007, but they were always meant to be temporary. Indeed, these provisions might have been declared unconstitutional, despite the incredible recalcitrance of Southern politicians in 1965, but for the promise that they would expire after a time.
Congress should drop the pre-clearance provision of the Voting Rights Act and another section enacted in 1975 requiring non-English ballots to be provided in some jurisdictions. The pre-clearance provision makes little sense today. There is no evidence that jurisdictions covered by Section 5 -- many of them now governed by African-American politicians -- would try to disenfranchise black voters.
Nahhhhhhhhh, I wouldn't think so....
Standard liberal/Democrat tactics, accused the opponent loudly and as publicly as possible of the things that your own part is doing.
Democrats ALMOST stole the last two elections. They're just PO-ed because Americans are now saying enough is enough! The web is focusing attention on the Democratic voting scams and initimidation tactics, plan on Dem. folks going to jail in 2008 for it.
Democrats are the new modern day Boss Tweeds, they'll do ANYTHING to stay in power. Including spill blood, take lives, oppress anyone, and steal from their own constituency. I can't imagine that ANYONE could be so low as to be an admitted Democrat these days.
Hang 'em High ~ Bump!
Godwin's Law, Mr. Belafonte. So shut up and sing, if your vocal chords are up to it.
My history books also stated that during the disenfranchisement era, the entire South was run by DEMOCRATS. Guess which party kept these people from voting in the first place.
Unless those questions are answered, tell the democrats to STFU !!!!!
The most important fact about Voting Rights and these democrats who think they are the protectors of it is that it was the DEMOCRATS who opposed it.
Someone needs to interview Robert KKK Byrd (Democrat, WV) about his role in the voting rights act. They need to ask him for a list of his pals at the time.
Yeah...and this is one of the biggest frauds being perpetrated by these people. The Democrats...especially the Dixie's, were the biggest obstructionist to both civil and voting rights. In fact, before LBJ became president, as the Senator of Texas, he supported a "poll" tax so that poor blacks (which was most of them) were prevented from voting.
With Robert Byrd's fillabusters and obstruction, much of the Democrat leadership were against any of these progressive reforms. What's lost in history, is LBJ's praise of Republicans for helping him get these acts passed...just as the NAACP awarded the Republican, Everett Dirkson for his work on these bills. It's sick to watch the deciet and deception from these people.
What's "Godwin's Law"?
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They want to talk about "stolen elections"? Here is what happened during the 1948 Democrat primary for U.S. Senate from Texas. The eventual "winner" was Lyndon "Landslide" Johnson. I want the democrats to explain how the Republicans pulled this one.
http://www.eiu.edu/~historia/1999/texas99.htm
"Hitler had a lot of Jews high up in the hierarchy of the Third Reich,"
I think Harry was into the rum before he stared talking...
You took the words right off of my keyboard! Bless you, FReeper!
The problem is... none of those who vote DemoCrap believe what you just said. It is because they are ignorant and wish to remain so.
Godwin's Law basically states that the topic is over when someone compares whatever is being said to Hitler or the Nazis. It usually means that the person mentioning Hitler or the Nazis has no actual points to raise. In this case, it holds true.
These were all democrat supporters at the protest. This is another good reason more people will change to the republican candidates. The sad thing is these stupid people really think they did they're side (democrats) some good by holding this protest. I think its funny and hope they have more of them all they way up until the elections.
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