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Multiple states will enact

rmrd0000 — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 12:21:13 +0000

In reply to That is my point Momoe. This

Multiple states will enact voter I'd to try to prevent nonexistent voter fraud. Sunday voting and same day voting will be abolished. Voting booths at minority precincts will decrease. Voters in minority communities will be directed to the wrong precincts. We know these things will happen because they were done in the last election.

The GOP lives in a bubble where they only see the progress that has been made,without their help, but ignore ongoing racial bias. The evil that they are doing cannot withstand the winds of time.

The current activist court has corporations as citizens, allowed money to play a bigger role in elections and now wants to return to Jim Crow style election laws.it is hard for me not to hate each Republican that I encounter at work right now, but that sensation will pass.

Somebody should write a book

Richard Day — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 04:57:07 +0000

In reply to I said EW Evans instead of EW

Somebody should write a book on your theme!

God Almighty, people just grab on to cliches without reviewing where in the hell they came from!

Well put!

That is my point Momoe. This

Richard Day — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 04:54:40 +0000

In reply to I bet every minority voter

That is my point Momoe.

This is going to piss off dems and moderates to an extent we have not seen for awhile!

Let's all get to work as my Ed might say!

We were not going to show up at the polls last November; that is what Gallop thought as well as other repub pollers.

Let's get to work!

I bet every minority voter

trkingmomoe — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 04:05:37 +0000

In reply to Supreme Court voids portions of Voting Rights Act

I bet every minority voter will turn out in midterm in Florida just to spite the Republicans. There was an attitude the last cycle that everyone needed to vote to protect their right to vote.

I said EW Evans instead of EW

rmrd0000 — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 00:57:05 +0000

In reply to An instructive early Thomas

I said EW Evans instead of EW Jackson

In the novel, Uncle Tom was written to be a heroic character who played the buffoon to keep other Blacks from being punished. Clarence Thomas is no Uncle Tom.

An instructive early Thomas

NCD — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 00:19:00 +0000

In reply to Given the makeup of the

An instructive early Thomas case from 1992 was Hudson vs. McMillan.

SCOTUS majority decided that the rights of a shackled state prisoner were violated when he had the shit beat out of him and his teeth knocked out by prison guards.

Thomas was joined by no other judges in saying the beating did not violate the rights of the prisoner. He is a piece of work who could only be appointed by a Republican, George Sr.

Given the makeup of the

rmrd0000 — Tue, 25 Jun 2013 19:44:51 +0000

In reply to Howard Klein is on MSNBC

Given the makeup of the court, this was not unexpected. Clarence Thomas again exposes himself as a fool .Yesterday Thomas equated Affirmative Action to Slavery. E.W. Jackson the idiot running for the Lt Governor of Virginia equated the Democratic Party to a plantation. Because the GOP puts forth Thomas and Evans as example of good Negroes., Democrats can actually relax because they know Blacks cannot vote for what the Republicans offer.

Blacks, Latinos, Asians, Gays and women are being pushed into the Democratic Party. The core of the GOP will be mainly White males. There will not be enough Whites to carry the neede Republican votes in many states in the future.

I was responding to you NCD

Richard Day — Tue, 25 Jun 2013 19:26:14 +0000

In reply to But Roberts said these are

I was responding to you NCD in my comment; I hit the wrong button!

Speaking of hitting the wrong buttons, Roberts and Kennedy should be ashamed of themselves.

Alito and Thomas and Scalia have no shame!

Howard Klein is on MSNBC

Richard Day — Tue, 25 Jun 2013 19:24:44 +0000

In reply to This makes the GOP more of a

Howard Klein is on MSNBC right now and he points out that the result of this 'tragedy' in judicial thinking (on the part of repubs) is that the dems must and will gather the funds to initiate individual suits every goddamn time the legislatures in the North and the South attempt to curtail minority voting rights.

He has a good point and this will all be a great source of funds for the dems and for the repubs who give a damn!

Today it was the Black Caucus as well as the Hispanic Caucus appearing together.

This might turn out all right.

Remember, when the DOJ Civil Rights Division was run by repubs there were racist emails as well as non action; failure to react to government sponsored racism as well as corporate sponsored racism.

I am hopeful!

But Roberts said these are

NCD — Tue, 25 Jun 2013 18:55:44 +0000

In reply to Supreme Court voids portions of Voting Rights Act

But Roberts said these are new times! Need a new formula!

Discrimination can still be addressed, by the DOJ somehow cataloging, investigating, prosecuting and seeking court injunctions for each and every two bit southern township or county that tries to do stuff like a county in Texas did, try to move a polling station from a public school to a former all white country club.

Kos says John Lewis tweets this kills the Voting Rights Act. For all practical purposes Roberts and the GOP think they can turn the clock back to 1960 again for minorities in the South.

I got news for them, it won't work.