Originally, the Constitution did not allow “blacks” to vote. It’s only that new-fangled version of the Constitution that’s causing all the problems for these folks.
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Voting rights are the fault line between Democrats and Republicans. In our Republic, there can be no tolerance for Republicans who actively suppress the vote. It’s fascism on the cheap. We won’t stand for it.
Having said all of that, Kemp’s move is not going to work. Polls show this race close and no pollster would have included any of these 53,000 voters because they are unlikely voters. There are more than enough voter from regular voters out there to win that race. Whatever we can add from this 53,000 is essentially gravy.
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Randy Newman nailed it 45 years (!) ago.
And not a damned thing has changed for some people in all that time – except switching from “D” to “R”.
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If you believe for an instant that Trump would sign such legislation, you need to share whatever it is you’re smoking.
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“Back in power”. That means back in the WH.
I would happily share my gear with you in any case.
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I did just receive my Fulton county notice reminding me of my polling place on election day and early voting dates, times & locations, so that was nice.
Next week by this time I hope to have my vote locked & loaded.
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Chief Justice Roberts is smiling over this. This and similar happening in red states throughout the country is exactly what he has been working for his entire career. He has a long public history of opposing civil rights era voting protections because, he claims, there is no longer any discrimination in the USA. This position represents one of the main reasons he is on the court and also part of why Justice Rapey now sits on the court. The totalitarian Republican party cannot win elections without cheating because they only represent extremely wealthy white people. And now they have installed a Supreme Court that will bless that cheating in every possible form. We will still have the structures of a democratic republic, but they are meaningless. Welcome to one party rule by and for the already obscenely rich. There’s no need for more than one deadly sin. Six of them are simply derivative of greed.
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That will be some time in the future—maybe 2020, but also maybe not until 2024.
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This is what he wants—and the only thing that will keep the GOP in power.
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OMG! That was 45 years ago??? I still hum the refrain in my head whenever I am in Louisiana!
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and everyone in this thread talking like they have shame
They have no shame
Federal charges and prison get their attention and not much else
There is a strong legacy of Racism to overcome and when it happens and there are people to legislate this institutional racism they will sorry
Only then
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But but but
Racism is a thing of the past.
Trump says black people love him and they all got jobs.
He must have not received the memo yet from djt
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Does “Originalism” mean before the Bill of Rights?
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“It means whatever I damn well want it to mean”
- every originalist ever
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I haven’t heard that song in a quite a while and it bring back memories of my youth.
One evening back in 1977 when I was a student at LSU, in Baton Rouge, LA, in a smoky bar called the Kingfish, I sat only a few feet away from a young Randy Newman and his piano, who sang us his entire Good Old Boys album all evening long to raucous beer drinking crowd.
For obvious reasons, Randy doesn’t sing the song Rednecks publicly anymore. The song was written as a parody about southern crackers, but is an anthem to the bigots.
The problem my friends, not much has changed in the old south, about how white folks feel about black folks and sad to say, Trump is making things all the worst.
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We will not quit. Not this time.
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We need a (federal) law that states shall pass no laws, and take no executive action, that affects national elections. It’s common sense.
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It should be to no one’s surprise that voter registration began in the US as a vote suppression method. It was in response to fears of new immigrant voters in the early 19th century, then repurposed in the mid-20th to disenfranchise blacks as federal laws addressed inequities in voting rights. What’s old is new again.
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People in Georgia should be appalled and embarrassed. A crook is running for governor.
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