Posted on 12/05/2011 7:56:45 PM PST by Steelfish
NAACP warns Black and Hispanic Americans Could Lose Right To Vote Civil rights group petitions UN over 'massive voter suppression' after apparent effort to disenfranchise black and Hispanic people
Ed Pilkington 5 December 2011
The NAACP called the move the 'most vicious, co-ordinated and sinister attack to narrow participation in our democracy since the early 20th century'.
The largest civil rights group in America, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), is petitioning the UN over what it sees as a concerted efforted to disenfranchise black and Latino voters ahead of next year's presidential election.
The organisation will this week present evidence to the UN high commissioner on human rights of what it contends is a conscious attempt to "block the vote" on the part of state legislatures across the US. Next March the NAACP will send a delegation of legal experts to Geneva to enlist the support of the UN human rights council.
The NAACP contends that the America in the throes of a consciously conceived and orchestrated move to strip black and other ethnic minority groups of the right to vote. (snip)
In its report, Defending Democracy: Confronting Modern Barriers to Voting Rights in America, the NAACP explores the voter supression measures taking place particularly in southern and western states.
Fourteen states have passed a total of 25 measures that will unfairly restrict the right to vote, among black and Hispanic voters in particular.
The new measures are focused – not coincidentally, the association insists – in states with the fastest growing black populations (Florida, Georgia, Texas and North Carolina) and Latino populations (South Carolina, Alabama and Tennessee). The NAACP sees this as a cynical backlash to a surge in ethnic minority voting evident in 2008.
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And then the United Nations will invade the USA and force us to have “fair” elections, right?
What a load of fear mongering clap trap!!
Squeal, piggies. We are going to supress voter fraud.
“...is petitioning the UN over what it sees as a concerted efforted to disenfranchise black and Latino voters ahead of next year’s presidential election.”
Asking the UN—which wouldn’t know a civil right if it saw one—to supervise American voting??
This is serious.
Why its just to much of a bad thing to prove that you are registered to vote and you are who you say you are.
Definitely a violation of your civil rights
Ah, yes. The ‘Association’....of COLORED people still trying to remain relevant in current society, I see.
LMAO!
If the libs can't bribe them to the polls with cigarettes and what not, they'll scare them into voting.
Yup. UN may impose a no fly zone over the US.
Civil rights group petitions UN over 'massive voter suppression'...
But black panther members will be permitted to intimidate and threaten voters. The naacp is a racist pile of garbage.
NAACP: FUD Masters...
The group that needs to be disenfranchised the most, is the NAACP. There ought to be a law, and somebody needs to propose legislation towards that end.
Yup. UN may impose a no fly zone over the US.
Seriously, Eric Holder will cooperate with the UN. Holder and 0bama have gotten away with Fast & Furious, so far. What’s to prevent them from going along with the UN?
Sorry UN... There’s a bunch of us that won’t stand for this if you show up. Better bring a lot of body bags with you if you decide to take on the task.
Intersting. The truth is, Holder told a committee in Congress that whitey has no right to vote in the NOI voter intimidation case. Only his “people” have voter rights. That ain’t whitey.
The NAACP has got to be the dumbest and most racist group of Blacks to ever suck air. If I were Black, I would be embarrassed to tears over these idiots.
Petitioning the UN is over the top nonsense.
Obama and his white hating and race baiting groups have taken race relations back by decades. It’s going to take a lot of intelligent conservative Blacks to turn this around, if that is even possible.
There are way too many communists in our country.
I'd give anything for a blue-helmeted, UN fairy to show up at my polling place. I'll kick his ass back to the third world sewer he crawled out of. Sorry Bub. We Americans haven't given up our country yet.
These people live in another universe or something
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