Don’t drug busts and the resultant confiscation of (ahem) merchandise also “thwart” black voters?
I smell bs
When everything is racist, nothing is racist.
Always victims, never perpetrators
Bingo rhymes with Mandingo. Clearly RACIST !!!
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...
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.
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.