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Suit claims bingo raids thwart black voters
tuscaloosanews.com ^ | 7-31-10 | Dana Beyerle

Posted on 07/31/2010 8:31:52 AM PDT by smokingfrog

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Electronic bingo is now a civil rights issue?
1 posted on 07/31/2010 8:31:54 AM PDT by smokingfrog
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2 posted on 07/31/2010 8:34:50 AM PDT by smokingfrog (freerepublic.com - Now 100% flag free.)
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Don’t drug busts and the resultant confiscation of (ahem) merchandise also “thwart” black voters?


3 posted on 07/31/2010 8:35:32 AM PDT by chickadee
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I smell bs


4 posted on 07/31/2010 8:38:12 AM PDT by dennisw (2012)
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When everything is racist, nothing is racist.


5 posted on 07/31/2010 8:40:40 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN
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Always victims, never perpetrators


6 posted on 07/31/2010 8:42:49 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat
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Barack Obama’s dream of a racially balkanized America is continuing apace, folks. Every day from every angle, white America endures more and more black attacks. And this carefully orchestrated assault is not going to stop.


7 posted on 07/31/2010 8:43:28 AM PDT by hampdenkid
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Bingo rhymes with Mandingo. Clearly RACIST !!!


8 posted on 07/31/2010 8:44:36 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: smokingfrog

Black crime is always a “racist” issue.
Almost makes one think there’s a sub-culture here that has no idea what laws are for, and prefers to be led by the local witchdoctor...


9 posted on 07/31/2010 8:45:22 AM PDT by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D.: "What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
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For those of you wondering what in the world is going on...

Alabama’s Constitution outlaws gambling. However, amendments to it allow it on a county by county basis if voted on by the voters.

Some counties voted it in. Again, there were restrictions.

Charity bingo is allowed in the state ,(along with dog tracks in a couple of counties, when constitutional amendments were passed).

Well, the gambling interests took the “charity bingo” loophole and tried to drive a convoy of mack trucks through it. Started opening Bingo Parlors all over the state.

THe State Attorney General is Troy King (D). He has consistently refused to shut down bingo parlors. THe local county judges (notoriously corrupt in Alabama) will issue decisions “legalizing” the gambling.

The Alabama Supreme court has shot these down every time.

It’s basically all a big political game. Milton Macgregor is a huge gambling tycoon in Alabama. He’s getting into politicians pockets everywhere that he can to try to get gambling legalized.

Problem is, the voters of Alabama, in statewide votes, consistently vote down gambling on statewide ballots.

Republican governor Bob Riley finally had to assemble a gambling task force to start shutting down the illegal gambling houses because AG Troy King wouldn’t stop it.

What we’ve ended up with is local politicians trying every tactic possible to keep the illegal gambling going in their county. SO you end up with numbskull lawsuits like this.


10 posted on 07/31/2010 8:55:39 AM PDT by Bryan24 (When in doubt, move to the right..........)
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Thanks for the excellent summary.


11 posted on 07/31/2010 8:58:10 AM PDT by smokingfrog (freerepublic.com - Now 100% flag free.)
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To: Redbob

Several of the big gambling houses that have been shut down are in the “black belt” counties in Alabama. Very large black populations in those counties. They are trying to make it a racial issue because they have nothing left to try.

This isn’t a race based issue. This is purely a gambling issue with big money gambling interests pulling every legal charade possible, including race, to try to keep the illegal gambling operations going.


12 posted on 07/31/2010 9:00:04 AM PDT by Bryan24 (When in doubt, move to the right..........)
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You should add that the states consider them to be slot machines.


13 posted on 07/31/2010 9:03:09 AM PDT by Domangart
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Thanks...the article was impossible to comprehend what, why, when and where. You’ve cleared it up.


14 posted on 07/31/2010 9:05:41 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper (Fix bayonets!)
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Suit claims bingo raids thwart black voters

No more than a couple New Black Panther guys with billy clubs at the polling place deter white voters.

15 posted on 07/31/2010 9:07:42 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (The Obama magic is <strike>fading</strike>gone.)
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Thanks....I figured some big gambling money was involved. What these black people have to do is

— return to their tribal roots
—get the Feds to grant them tribal recognition
— open casinos
— sit back on their butts and collect the paychecks


16 posted on 07/31/2010 9:09:38 AM PDT by dennisw (2012)
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I wonder, if Hispanics and Asians are next on the list.


17 posted on 07/31/2010 9:39:02 AM PDT by Niuhuru (The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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They already do in case you haven’t noticed.

” return to their tribal roots”
They lay claim to their African roots.

“get the Feds to grant them tribal recognition”
They demand that the Feds institute AA as a recognition of their minority status.

“open casinos”
They gamble in the sense that they go out and rob people.

“— sit back on their butts and collect the paychecks”
And they sit back and collect welfare.


18 posted on 07/31/2010 9:42:10 AM PDT by Niuhuru (The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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To: CIB-173RDABN

That would be a great tagline!


19 posted on 07/31/2010 9:50:17 AM PDT by stylecouncilor (What Would Jim Thompson Do?)
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I can’t argue with you. Getting tribal status to open up casinos is being anointed same as getting affirmative action

Now the Hawaiian natives are getting bills through Congress to grant them tribal status so they can open casinos so they get that weekly check. So they can sit on the butts all day and smoke cigarettes and take drugs (preferably meth)..... At least that’s how it looks on Dog the Bounty Hunter’s show


20 posted on 07/31/2010 10:06:51 AM PDT by dennisw (2012)
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