Off the topic a bit. Can anyone give me a reliable source concerning republican suppression of black voters in the South. getting tired of dealing with this propaganda with my liberal brother. Thanks.
The Republicans are pushing for voter I.D., the Democrats claim that blacks are so inept and stupid that they can't figure out how to get a FREE state I.D. card.
I have lived in the South for most of my life. Ask him how voters are being suppressed?
Most liberals are not capable of backing up statements they get from the news. They are not independent thinkers and only convey talking points from the Marxist left.
Ask him to compare the AA culture in the North to that in the South.
I will bet the black family in Charlotte is 10x better off than the black family in Detroit.
You want a reliable source for your brother? Just open a history book. The worst black voter suppression in the south was under Democrats when they suppressed poor black voters by instituting a poll tax that had to be paid before being able to vote.
Democrats, also held most governorships and state houses from after the civil war through the 1970’s, the period of the worst post slavery black oppression in the south. History they prefer to forget.
Republicans also ended the Democrat filibuster against passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Democrats insist that the black vote is suppressed by Republicans because they want ID presented to vote. Just as ID is required to get a social security card, drivers lcense, get a marriage licence (a fundamental Constitutional right, by the way) and countless other necessities. Democrats even require ID to attend party caucuses and their National Convention. Wonder why that is?
There were over 1000 white men lynched in the South by the KKK. Why? They were trying to register black voters as Republicans.
“Can anyone give me a reliable source concerning republican suppression of black voters in the South.”
No one can, because it doesn’t exist.
“Can anyone give me a reliable source concerning republican suppression of black voters in the South.”
No one can, because it doesn’t exist. The Voting Rights Act of 1964 was passed because blacks were not supposed to have been allowed to vote in the South. However, if you check the history of the Louisiana governor’s race in 1963, you will see how many hundreds of thousands of blacks voted that year. The “black voting bloc” for the liberal candidate was an issue for that election (and it did happen).
Here is an excerpt I got from Wikipedia under “John J. McKeithen. It is about the 1963 Louisiana governor’s race
“In the runoff campaign, McKeithen rallied the supporters of fifth-place finisher Shelby Jackson by warning of the dangers of a NAACP “bloc vote” for Morrison. McKeithen won the runoff, 492,905 (52.2 percent) to 451,161 (47.8 percent).”
Morrison was former mayor of New Orleans and a liberal. Morrison died about four months later (along with his young son) in a plane crash in Mexico. I think he may have been on assignment for McKeithen.