Black conservatives launch effort to scrap part of Voting Rights Act
Source: Guardian
Black conservatives launch effort to scrap part of Voting Rights Act
By Paul Harris, The Guardian
Thursday, January 17, 2013 20:36 EST
A group of prominent black conservatives is trying to help scrap a key part of the Voting Rights Act, the landmark civil rights-era legislation that enshrined the right of black Americans to have equal treatment at the ballot box.
The law was signed in 1965 by President Lyndon Johnson in the presence of civil rights leaders like Dr Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks, and it represented one of the milestone victories in ending the Jim Crow segregation of the deep south.
Now, however, a black conservative group called Project 21 has filed a legal brief before the US supreme court in support of a case aimed at overturning key provisions of the act. The bid, on which the supreme court is set to rule this summer, has been brought by the authorities in Shelby County in the southern state of Alabama.
Project 21?s argument focuses on the part of the Voting Rights Act called Section 5, which holds that certain areas of the country with a history of racial discrimination when it comes to voting rights need to get federal approval before changing any of their voting procedures.
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/01/17/black-conservatives-launch-effort-to-scrap-part-of-voting-rights-act/
Scuba
(53,475 posts)SemperEadem
(8,053 posts)BainsBane
(53,032 posts)All six of them?
surrealAmerican
(11,360 posts)... required to get approval for changes to voting procedures, but they're conservatives, so they won't do that.
atreides1
(16,076 posts)So would Cornel West, I'm sure...
Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)did have the perfect name for it.
alp227
(32,020 posts)SemperEadem
(8,053 posts)as well as these conservative blacks...
I'd spit on them all, but that would be too kind of an act and a waste of good saliva.
Politicub
(12,165 posts)brush
(53,776 posts)muntrv
(14,505 posts)kxm40
(46 posts)I feel ashamed.
sakabatou
(42,152 posts)Solly Mack
(90,764 posts)Selatius
(20,441 posts)Response to Judi Lynn (Original post)
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bitchkitty
(7,349 posts)You're "holding back the n word?"
That's a surprising thing to see on a progressive message board.
Great Caesars Ghost
(532 posts)Remember what this is about <keyword>CONSERVATIVE blacks. Not all blacks. Looking at the rest of the posts, people here sounded like they are holding back. Just remember the real enemy is the right wing.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)vaberella
(24,634 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Socal31
(2,484 posts)If you have to "hold back" such a despicable word, then it is obvious how you really feel.
I had to check and see if I was re-routed to Stormfront for a minute...
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)The Second Stone
(2,900 posts)names for these kinds of people. Happy that I know what those names are. I do believe that Samuel Jackson just played them in an allegory, however.
ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)Archae
(46,327 posts)His name is Mychal Massie, and he is a regular writer at WND.
And Massie is a vicious liar.
http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/stories/2012/massieobama.html
radicalliberal
(907 posts)It's really just that simple.
Great Caesars Ghost
(532 posts)radicalliberal
(907 posts)I'm not a black guy, but I grew up under Jim Crow in Texas and saw just how evil it was. I saw that even "nice" people could be twisted by racial bigotry. These Uncle Toms disgust me!
Great Caesars Ghost
(532 posts)radicalliberal
(907 posts)Those who have experienced the sort of pain you've mentioned are able to relate to the pain of others. But it's not always true of every such individual.
Skittles
(153,160 posts)shenmue
(38,506 posts)Oh dear.
skypilot
(8,853 posts)I mean seriously.
On edit: I was about the ask who's paying these idiots and then I realized I'd missed the last paragraph of the article. There's the answer.
zellie
(437 posts)These people can sell their souls all they want and they are still assh@les.
treestar
(82,383 posts)Do they honestly believe the problems are solved and there is total equality now?
Justitia
(9,316 posts)underpants
(182,789 posts)Comrade_McKenzie
(2,526 posts)They might get their conservative germs on me.
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Coyotl
(15,262 posts)because the court just decided not to revisit this issue in another case.