Posted on 11/12/2014 9:08:18 AM PST by maddog55
A group of Harvard students were recently asked by their tutor to sit the 1964 Louisiana Literacy Test - a notorious document with confusing questions that was used to stop black citizens from voting.
Just 50 years ago, states in the South asked voters who couldn't provide proof of a fifth grade education to pass the test in order to be eligible to cast a ballot.
The test was intended to disenfranchise African-Americans, who in order to pass had to correctly answer all 30 questions in 10 minutes.
Despite their Ivy League pedigree, none of the students managed to pass the test and their reactions as they struggled to make sense of the obtuse questions was filmed.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I confess I had to look up the word “eidolons”.
IMO this is all bogus. They should have given them the test without any explanation as to its source or original reason for the test. It’s actually quite simple providing you can read and follow directions.
Maybe because you’re not obsessed with them. That’s a good thing.
“eidolons” interesting word, thanks for enlightening me :).
J Gruber and MIT would have been right at home with the democrat liars and thugs of that time too.. Same tactics, same excuses just different victims. Then it was blacks - today it's traditional Americans.
Thugs and liars... always democrats.
I'm sure the State Legislature probably mirrored that "trend" to a large extent, as well.
Exactly. The 1964 Literacy Test was implemented by DEMOCRATS to stay in power through fraudulent means. Opposing ID laws is a way for DEMOCRATS to stay in power through fraudulent means too. Some things never change.
Just shows that Harvard folks aren’t as smart as they think they are. I think the test isn’t that hard. Wrong to use for allowing people to vote, but geesh, you’d think our “betters” would be able to pass it.
1. Democrats are vote-suppressing racists.
2. Chip and Muffy aren't nearly as "gifted" as their parents and their Harvard administrators tell them they are....
Now give the test to a bunch of homeschooled 9th graders and see if they do better than the harvard students
If you can’t use big words, use BIG words...
That one would get me. :)
Why, mista massa da aint no bubbles in a bar a soap, all da bubbles be in da watta!
thanks for enlightening me
A pleasure. I thought I was too busy clinging to my Bibles and guns to do that ;)
I guess it takes a real lonely person to demand attention...that or a flamboyant homosexual. Same thing.
At the very end of the video is the zinger for why this article was written. The black guy at the end is against voter ID.
Zero
To get more, one needs to add water
It was a straight basic literacy test: it gave a paragraph on Francis Scott Keyes and The Star-Spangled Banner, beginning "Francis Scott Keyes wrote The Star-Spangled Banner." The first question was "Who wrote The Star-Spangled Banner?"
Nothing wrong with literacy tests per se, but some of the southern states really did abuse the concept.
One ninny asked how to draw a line around something. Poor thing needs to take Circles 101.
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