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Black Caucus members seek improvements to Voting Rights Act
The Hill ^ | 07/23/13 05:00 AM ET | By Mike Lillis

Posted on 07/23/2013 4:04:50 AM PDT by onyx

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To: onyx

I can see one member of the CBC asking another:

“I suppose putting in that voting rights act that a African-American automatically gets three ballots is not on the table this time?”


21 posted on 07/23/2013 6:16:53 AM PDT by The Working Man
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To: CIB-173RDABN
Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) Isn’t this a racist organization by it’s own title?

Yes, it is.

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a racist organization.

The United Negro College Fund is a racist organization.

Black Entertainment Television is a racist propaganda channel.

Ebony magazine (if it still exists) is a racist propaganda publication.

22 posted on 07/23/2013 6:25:05 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: Altura Ct.

I CONCUR.


23 posted on 07/23/2013 6:42:59 AM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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Republicans should ban all gerrymandering racial and otherwise in any bill offered. That will kill it.


24 posted on 07/23/2013 6:48:11 AM PDT by Ford4000
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“I want to lower the standard of proof from intentional discrimination, which is hard to prove, to discriminatory result,” Butterfield, a former voting rights attorney, said last week.

Fine. IIRC, According to the US Census, "Black or African American. This number includes 34.7 million people, or 12.3 percent, who reported only Black."

Of the 435 members of the House, 43 are members of the Black Caucus, which would be 10%. Given that blacks are a minority in many districts that are dominantly white, this is hardly a major disparity.

Done.

25 posted on 07/23/2013 6:59:45 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (Islam offers choices: convert, submit, or die.)
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Old GK Butterfield is my congress critter. He is from a district carved out just to make it a majority black district because there is no possible way he could be elected in a fair vote. I find it ironic that he is the least bit worried about voter discrimination since my vote is guaranteed not to count.


26 posted on 07/23/2013 7:33:08 AM PDT by Bob Buchholz
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Voting rights? Someone needs to tell him that democrates always get 95% of the black vote anyway. And they steal the other 5% Black people don’t even need to vote.


27 posted on 07/23/2013 1:01:37 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (If you vote for evil because you can't see evil, you ARE evil!)
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I think that’s true with most, if not all of their districts.


28 posted on 07/23/2013 2:52:16 PM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: VerySadAmerican

You’re absolutely right.


29 posted on 07/23/2013 2:52:39 PM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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