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The Voting Rights Act contains some pretty appalling provisions. It requires states to provide bilingual ballots. That’s a sure way to help balkanize the country. If someone’s been here five years and can’t read English they shouldn’t be voting. The act also bans literacy tests. We should have literacy tests for voting. Voting is a privilege, not a right. The act bans all poll taxes, even in state and local elections. I’m against poll taxes, but Congress has no authority to ban them except in federal elections (24th Amendment).

You’re correct that the VRA isn’t as pernicious as slavery, segregation, and lynching. However, current crime rates, in which black-on-white crime is many times worse than white-on-black, are as pernicious as lynching. And unlike lynching, it’s going on right now (not 70 years ago), but we’re not allowed to talk about it.

As for segregation, it’s making a comeback. Go to any major college campus and check out the black-only organizations, meeting places, and even dorms. We had a post here at FR a few months ago on Hispanic-only graduation ceremonies, which are becoming popular in certain regions. Look forward to Muslims getting their own turf as well. All this will be courtesy of the same PC nitwits who want to suppress memories of the Confederacy. And wait’ll California wants to secede. Talk about the left and the PC Cons facing a crisis!

We’ve been over the slavery thing before. Yes, it was bad, but American blacks today are beneficiaries of it. They have the highest standard of living of any blacks on earth thanks to those nasty southern slave owners who brought their ancestors over here. You don’t hear Walter Williams, Thomas Sowell, Terry Anderson, or Michael Steele moaning about slavery, because they’d rather appreciate what our Founders gave us than whine. Leave the whining to Jesse & Al & the other race hustlers.