Louisiana Voting Literacy Test, 1964

Another heated battle between the same two people.

The manchild speaketh. Your big mouth seems to constantly get you in trouble.

Okay, can you help me out here. This is being posted for what reason? I am certain it is NOT black history month. You use the word "most" black people had to pass to vote. So does that mean that for "some" it was not required. How was the "selection" process decided and who decided it for whom was tested and who was not?
Is this your new mantra to make sure that all or "most" folks on LVA know that you continually bring up "racial" issues?
Let it go, for gosh sakes.

Seems to me that the ones most holding a grudge from the past are white liberals, I don't seem
to hear a whole lot of bitching from blacks. Hell I think Jesse even backed off after that ridiculous idea of
paying reparations to all black people for the descendants of slaves or whatever that asinine thing he came
up with.

J

Perhaps Chil posted it because we have a twit here who recently claimed that racial discrimination was something that happened "hundreds" of years ago.

Of course the President's parent's marriage would have been illegal in 16 states at the time of his birth, and the reason Michael Jordan's dad got into the habit of sleeping in his car was that he was not allowed to stay in Southern motels for much of his life. So apartheid in the US isn't exactly ancient history.

But more importantly, right now when it comes to voting, criminal profiling, sentencing, school funding, etc., de facto discrimination is rampant and obvious, according to the FBI, NYPD, etc. In 2013.

And yeah, I claimed to eschew ad hominem insults here, but under the circumstances, "twit" is a really kind way of putting it.

Good questions, thank you for asking.

All of these questions are answered by the link I posted at the bottom of the first post in this thread. In a nutshell, the test was imposed by the local registrars of voters, each of whom was white. As I understand it, it was almost always given to blacks, and rarely given to whites. It was so difficult that no one could pass it. But the few whites who were given it were always passed anyhow. That was the whole point, of course: let whites vote, keep blacks from voting.

Note that the registrars were approved by the all-white parish commissioners, who were voted into office. The white registrars knew that their jobs depended on satisfying the nearly all-white electorate, and so the registrars acted accordingly.

"(A)ll the politicians who made the rules were white. And the police chiefs that enforce the laws were all white. And the policemen they hired were all white. If you are not registered to vote, you can't serve on a jury, so any time there's a criminal charge or a civil dispute in the courts, the judges and juries are all white. That's how it was in Tangipahoa Parish in the summer of 1964, and throughout most of Louisiana."

And since I know you follow the news, you know how this struggle continues today.

They need a gambling test before you wager money on any game in the casinos.

I forget sometimes, this is the Vegas Free-for-All forum of course.

Perhaps I can learn from his example. Here are some Vegas Free-for-All threads started by rdwoodpecker:

Tebow may be opening day starter

what's your "hobbies" and how can you afford? (sic)

penthouse or playboy?

Ohio problems seem to be dominating the news of late

Chiefs Jovan Belcher allegedly shoots girlfriend

turkey adventures?

Mitch Guist of "Swamp People" dead at 47

does the fancy label effect your choice? (sic)

Today show observations

We all knew it, Bin Laden has been spotted

And my personal favorite . . .

Anybody here a WWE fan?

In the future, I will try to follow rdwoodpecker's example and stay on topic.

Wait a minute ! ! !

Mitch Guist is dead ? ? ?

Oh, . . . the humanity.

All very worthy topics. I'm a sucker for fancy labeling I was just too ashamed to admit it on the thread.