Speech by Camille Cosby (Black Voting Rights Ending??) (Vanity)

This is part of the text of her speech i got in an e-mail and i was wondering if this is really true. this is an honest inquiry because it seems highly unlikely but not impossible and i know FReepers have abundant knowledge

Amendment 15 to the United States Constitution states:

1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Part 1 is non-negotiable so it is untrue that the any race requires permission to vote (must be a citizen...). Part 2 empowers Congress to enforece part 1. This is a specific and explicit empowerment of Congress to pass laws to make sure that voting rights are not based on race (in concept or action). In other words - there are no constitutional questions about the feds ensuring, pretty much as they see fit under the limitation of "as appropriate," that voting rights are not limited based on race.

Congress didn't really do that until 1965. Despite what the e-mail says, the Voting Rights Act is a law (else it would not have any enforcable qualities). It is a law that prescribes how the federal government will make sure that a persons right to vote is not infringed based on race.

That act (law) does expire in 2007, but that is the enforcement law (not race specific) and not the right, which is, as noted earlier - non-negotiable.

This is part of the text of her speech i got in an e-mail and i was wondering if this is really true. this is an honest inquiry because it seems highly unlikely but not impossible and i know FReepers have abundant knowledge

Amendment 15 to the United States Constitution states:

1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Part 1 is non-negotiable so it is untrue that the any race requires permission to vote (must be a citizen...). Part 2 empowers Congress to enforece part 1. This is a specific and explicit empowerment of Congress to pass laws to make sure that voting rights are not based on race (in concept or action). In other words - there are no constitutional questions about the feds ensuring, pretty much as they see fit under the limitation of "as appropriate," that voting rights are not limited based on race.

Congress didn't really do that until 1965. Despite what the e-mail says, the Voting Rights Act is a law (else it would not have any enforcable qualities). It is a law that prescribes how the federal government will make sure that a persons right to vote is not infringed based on race.

That act (law) does expire in 2007, but that is the enforcement law (not race specific) and not the right, which is, as noted earlier - non-negotiable.

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Hey Camille have a Coke and a Jello Pudding Pop and STFU!!

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