#blackvoters — Public Fediverse posts
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found it
Louisiana, not Tennessee
his name is Marshawn
https://www.tiktok.com/@therootnews/video/7639420437809630477
"A Louisiana resident who identified himself as Marshawn delivered a fiery, emotional speech to lawmakers during a state Senate hearing over redistricting Monday, accusing Republicans of trying to “cheat” Black voters out of political power.
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found it
Louisiana, not Tennessee
his name is Marshawn
https://www.tiktok.com/@therootnews/video/7639420437809630477
"A Louisiana resident who identified himself as Marshawn delivered a fiery, emotional speech to lawmakers during a state Senate hearing over redistricting Monday, accusing Republicans of trying to “cheat” Black voters out of political power.
..."
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found it
Louisiana, not Tennessee
his name is Marshawn
https://www.tiktok.com/@therootnews/video/7639420437809630477
"A Louisiana resident who identified himself as Marshawn delivered a fiery, emotional speech to lawmakers during a state Senate hearing over redistricting Monday, accusing Republicans of trying to “cheat” Black voters out of political power.
..."
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found it
Louisiana, not Tennessee
his name is Marshawn
https://www.tiktok.com/@therootnews/video/7639420437809630477
"A Louisiana resident who identified himself as Marshawn delivered a fiery, emotional speech to lawmakers during a state Senate hearing over redistricting Monday, accusing Republicans of trying to “cheat” Black voters out of political power.
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Louisiana redistricting hearing erupts after SCOTUS ruling
Louisiana's redistricting hearing erupted in chaos after a Supreme Court ruling struck down the state's majority-Black congressional map, making way for Republican-drawn proposals that could give the party five or all six of its US House seats. #News #Reuters #Newsfeed #lousiana #blackvoters #redistricting #uspolitics Read the story here: 👉 Subscribe: Keep up with the latest news from around the world: Follow…
https://fllics.com/en/video/louisiana-redistricting-hearing-erupts-after-scotus-ruling/
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Power Grab or Legal Shift? What the Louisiana v. Callais Decision Means for Black Voters
Published: May 2, 2026
By: DoRaleigh Editorial TeamOverview
A recent opinion piece by Candece Monteil, representing the National Urban League, sharply criticized the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Louisiana v. Callais. The decision has sparked national debate, with critics calling it a major setback for voting rights—particularly for Black Americans.
What Happened in Louisiana v. Callais?
At the center of the controversy is Louisiana’s congressional redistricting map. The map had been designed to ensure Black voters—who make up nearly one-third of the state’s population—had a fair opportunity to elect representatives of their choice.
However, the Supreme Court struck down this map, raising concerns among civil rights advocates that the ruling weakens protections under the Voting Rights Act—specifically Section 2, which prohibits racial discrimination in voting.
Why Critics Call It a “Power Grab”
According to Monteil and the National Urban League, the ruling goes beyond legal interpretation and ventures into political consequences:
- Dilution of Black voting power: Critics argue the decision enables states to redraw districts in ways that weaken minority influence without overtly violating the law.
- Higher burden of proof: The ruling may make it significantly harder to challenge discriminatory maps unless clear intent is proven.
- Precedent for other states: The decision could open the door for similar redistricting strategies nationwide.
Justice Elena Kagan echoed these concerns in her dissent, warning that the Court is now allowing systemic dilution of minority voting power without accountability.
The Broader Impact
The implications stretch far beyond Louisiana:
- National ripple effect: Other states may adopt more aggressive redistricting tactics.
- Civil rights concerns: Advocates fear decades of progress achieved through the Civil Rights Movement could be eroded.
- Community consequences: In regions already facing inequities—such as environmental justice issues and high incarceration rates—reduced political representation could limit access to resources and policy change.
The ruling also raises questions about the future strength of the Voting Rights Act, a cornerstone of American democracy signed into law by Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965.
Calls to Action
The National Urban League and other advocacy groups are urging immediate action on multiple fronts:
1. State Leadership Accountability
Louisiana lawmakers are being called on to redraw maps that reflect fair demographic representation.
2. Congressional Intervention
There is growing pressure on Congress to strengthen and restore protections under the Voting Rights Act.
3. Community Engagement
Voters are encouraged to:
- Attend public hearings
- Contact elected officials
- Participate in upcoming elections, including November 2026
Final Thoughts
The debate surrounding Louisiana v. Callais underscores a long-standing truth: equitable political representation in the U.S. has rarely come without sustained effort and advocacy. While some view the ruling as a legal recalibration, others see it as a pivotal moment that could redefine access to democracy.
One thing is clear—the conversation around voting rights is far from over.
Read The Original Article From The National Urban League
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#BlackVoters #CivilRights #Democracy #LouisianaPolitics #NationalUrbanLeague #News #Redistricting #Section2 #SupremeCourt #USPolitics #VotingRights -
Remember what counts as an emergency to these chuds
https://piefed.social/c/shermanposting/p/2028740/remember-what-counts-as-an-emergency-to-these-chuds
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Remember what counts as an emergency to these chuds
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Supreme Court Rejects Louisiana Map, Curtails Voting Rights Act
The Supreme Court ruled against Louisiana's voting map, making it harder to prove racial discrimination in voting rights. Black voters are affected.
#VotingRights, #SupremeCourt, #Louisiana, #CivilRights, #BlackVoters
https://newsletter.tf/supreme-court-louisiana-voting-rights-harder/
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The Supreme Court's 6-3 decision makes it harder for Black voters to have their votes count equally, changing how voting rights are protected.
#VotingRights, #SupremeCourt, #Louisiana, #CivilRights, #BlackVoters
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James Talarico Works to Secure Black Voter Support After Texas Democratic Primary Victory
📰 Original title: ‘Come and make the ask’: Talarico faces a test with Black voters in Texas
🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Usuarios: It's not clickbait ✅View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/james-talarico-works-to-secure-black-voter-support-after-texas-democratic-primary-victory/?redirpost=14e3e778-9cf1-4499-b1b8-74dc556f9388
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James Talarico Works to Secure Black Voter Support After Texas Democratic Primary Victory
📰 Original title: ‘Come and make the ask’: Talarico faces a test with Black voters in Texas
🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Usuarios: It's not clickbait ✅View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/james-talarico-works-to-secure-black-voter-support-after-texas-democratic-primary-victory/?redirpost=14e3e778-9cf1-4499-b1b8-74dc556f9388
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James Talarico Works to Secure Black Voter Support After Texas Democratic Primary Victory
📰 Original title: ‘Come and make the ask’: Talarico faces a test with Black voters in Texas
🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Usuarios: It's not clickbait ✅View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/james-talarico-works-to-secure-black-voter-support-after-texas-democratic-primary-victory/?redirpost=14e3e778-9cf1-4499-b1b8-74dc556f9388
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James Talarico Works to Secure Black Voter Support After Texas Democratic Primary Victory
📰 Original title: ‘Come and make the ask’: Talarico faces a test with Black voters in Texas
🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Usuarios: It's not clickbait ✅View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/james-talarico-works-to-secure-black-voter-support-after-texas-democratic-primary-victory/?redirpost=14e3e778-9cf1-4499-b1b8-74dc556f9388
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The leftists are ignoring the real base again. Working class black and Latino voters are the party's heart, but leftists treat their loyalty as a given and ignore the people holding the coalition together.
The rural savior myth persists as leftists keep chasing white men to win over rural MAGA voters. They waste resources on a pipe dream instead of backing the population center minorities who actually keep the party in the game.
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How the unprecedented redistricting war is affecting election officials, politicians, and voters
How the unprecedented redistricting war is affecting election officials, politicians, and voters The redrawing of states’ congressional districts…
#Conflict #Conflicts #War #blackvoters #California #CityofIndustry #congressionaldistricts #electioncycles #Electionofficials #Latinovoters #MarioTama #northcarolina #presidentdonaldtrump #redistricting #votershead #war
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The Supreme Court Asks Why It Shouldn’t Gut the Voting Rights Act
We may well see the elimination of the 11 Black-majority districts — all Democratic — in GOP-controlled Southern states.https://murica.website/2025/08/the-supreme-court-asks-why-it-shouldnt-gut-the-voting-rights-act/
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“This win corrects a historic injustice,”said Ari Savitzky, a snr staff attorney at the #ACLU #VotingRights Project. “All Mississippians will benefit from fair district lines that give #BlackVoters an #equal voice—& new generations of #BlackLeaders an equal chance to help shape the state’s future by serving on the state’s highest court.”
The lawsuit, filed April 25, 2022, argued the map diminished the #Black vote in the Central District.
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“How Do You Tell Voters to Fight When You Gave Up?” — Roland Challenges Texas Dems Ending Walkout - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdOyIvltp-E&ab_channel=RolandS.Martin
#RolandMartin #RolandMartinUnfiltered #Texas #TexasDemocrats #BlackStarNetwork #Democrats #VotingRights #Redistricting #BlackVoters #CivilRights #Democracy #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #BlackFediverse #BlackThreads #BlackSky #Politics -
“How Do You Tell Voters to Fight When You Gave Up?” — Roland Challenges Texas Dems Ending Walkout - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdOyIvltp-E&ab_channel=RolandS.Martin
#RolandMartin #RolandMartinUnfiltered #Texas #TexasDemocrats #BlackStarNetwork #Democrats #VotingRights #Redistricting #BlackVoters #CivilRights #Democracy #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #BlackFediverse #BlackThreads #BlackSky #Politics -
“How Do You Tell Voters to Fight When You Gave Up?” — Roland Challenges Texas Dems Ending Walkout - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdOyIvltp-E&ab_channel=RolandS.Martin
#RolandMartin #RolandMartinUnfiltered #Texas #TexasDemocrats #BlackStarNetwork #Democrats #VotingRights #Redistricting #BlackVoters #CivilRights #Democracy #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #BlackFediverse #BlackThreads #BlackSky #Politics -
“How Do You Tell Voters to Fight When You Gave Up?” — Roland Challenges Texas Dems Ending Walkout - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdOyIvltp-E&ab_channel=RolandS.Martin
#RolandMartin #RolandMartinUnfiltered #Texas #TexasDemocrats #BlackStarNetwork #Democrats #VotingRights #Redistricting #BlackVoters #CivilRights #Democracy #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #BlackFediverse #BlackThreads #BlackSky #Politics -
“How Do You Tell Voters to Fight When You Gave Up?” — Roland Challenges Texas Dems Ending Walkout - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdOyIvltp-E&ab_channel=RolandS.Martin
#RolandMartin #RolandMartinUnfiltered #Texas #TexasDemocrats #BlackStarNetwork #Democrats #VotingRights #Redistricting #BlackVoters #CivilRights #Democracy #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #BlackFediverse #BlackThreads #BlackSky #Politics -
"It’s a chance to exact lawless terror on minorities the way Pete Hegseth fantasized about while he typed out his books with a fifth of whiskey!"
#Trump #WashingtonDC #military #racism #WhiteSupremacy #MAGA #BlackVoters
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"The takeover of DC is no more about crime than his takeover of Los Angeles was about migrant caravans. It’s all about going through the motions of the racist purge that he has dog-whistled and foghorned and winky-winked at his followers ever since his first rant about Mexico 'sending' rapists."
~ Marcie Jones
#Trump #WashingtonDC #military #racism #WhiteSupremacy #MAGA #BlackVoters
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"It’s no accident that the seats targeted by the Texas redistricting plan include those held by some of the most visible, vocally anti-Trump Black Democrats in Congress, including Jasmine Crockett and Al Green. Trump’s goal is to destroy Black voting power and Black leadership."
~ Noah Berlatsky
#Trump #WashingtonDC #military #racism #WhiteSupremacy #MAGA #BlackVoters
/1https://www.publicnotice.co/p/competitive-authoritarianism-trump-orban
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Republican state lawmakers argue their proposed redistricting map would create Latino opportunity districts. But a Democratic state rep says the map is drawn to leave Black and Latino residents with a fraction of the voting power of whites.
#CivilRights #Elections #News #Politics #Texas #Voting #BlackVoters #CongressionalRedistricting #LatinoVoters #RacialDiscrimination #StateRepresentativeVincePerez #TexasRedistricting
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At a Crossroads: Can Black Men and Women Find Common Ground? | Native Land Pod - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSbUfA6xeQA&ab_channel=NativeLandPod
#NativeLandPod #AngelaRye #AndrewGillum #TiffanyCross #GaryChambers #TerranceWoodbury #BlackVoters #BlackMen #BlackMenVoters #Politics #FamilyBusiness -
The Results are In: Do Black Men & Women See Politics the Same Way? | Native Land Pod - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4llaL9ULdU&ab_channel=NativeLandPod
#NativeLandPod #AngelaRye #AndrewGillum #TiffanyCross #GaryChambers #TerranceWoodbury #BlackVoters #BlackMen #BlackMenVoters #Politics #FamilyBusiness -
@lovelylovely
Pro-democracy family Joe Biden loves "America"which is why he stepped and should be commended for that My issue what WASHINGTON Democrats did publicly to Biden did more damaged than good not just too him but the party as a whole If the leaders & donors had concerns about Biden after that debate" should have addressed that at the White House privately not in public and he would have stepped down sooner It was Never about POWER for him.And #BlackVoters NEVER abandoned him Dems did -
An amends for an earlier post…
While crazy picked up more #blackvoters than in 2024, this number was insignificant compared to his gains with white men, usually those who are uneducated.
I do believe that says it all… this and media outlets like the #nyt and social media, especially #x and #facebook, conspired to form the perfect storm.
I also really wish people in our country were better educated about what factors influence our economy.
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Pro-democray family I want you to always remember that during the drop-out-Biden smear campaign and media smears against Biden you must Never forget who was standing with him until the end.
#BLACKVOTERS)CONGRESSIONALBLACKCAUCUS
Don't forget it, we are not plastic"
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Is #US. #Gaza Policy Hurting #Harris With #BlackVoters?
Survey data shows that the crucial #Democratic #voting bloc rejects the #Bidenadministration’s approach to the #wars in the #MiddleEast.https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/11/05/biden-harris-gaza-black-voters/
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"Frederick Douglass knew that in a binary political system, there would be one party that more clearly stood for racial progress and unity than the other.
For him, there was no question which party to support.
Political options today remain as binary and as clear as they were 140 years ago. Make your choice."
There's always been deep wisdom in African-American culture as it deals with mainstream culture. We ignore it to our peril.
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Black Americans have long since been forced to see that neither party in our binary political system is ideal or pure, and the choice is always between the worse or the less worse. Tisby writes,
"Choosing between two candidates—neither of whom represent your values completely—is nothing new. And it is not an excuse to withdraw from the political process."
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As Jemar Tisby reminds us, Black Americans have never had the luxury of purism as they make their political choices — a luxury that only privileged people, the kind who can toy with voting for Jill Stein or not voting at all – in either case, effectively voting for Trump – can afford.
#BlackVoters #KamalaHarris #Trump
/1https://jemartisby.substack.com/p/frederick-douglass-realistic-advice
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The NAACP has released its latest data on Black voting, including Black male voting. https://naacp.org/articles/new-naacp-data-displays-progress-reaching-black-male-voters-shifts-key-attitudes-and #BlackVoters #BlackMaleVoters #BlackVotesMatter
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Take The Near Impossible #LiteracyTest #Louisiana Used to Suppress the #BlackVote (1964)
in History, Politics | October 21st, 2024
"In William Faulkner’s 1938 novel The Unvanquished, the implacable Colonel Sartoris takes drastic action to stop the election of a black Republican candidate to office after the Civil War, destroying the #ballots of #BlackVoters and shooting two Northern carpetbaggers. While such dramatic means of #VoterSuppression occurred often enough in the Reconstruction South, tactics of electoral exclusion refined over time, such that by the mid-twentieth century the #JimCrowSouth relied largely on nearly impossible-to-pass literacy tests to impede free and fair elections.
"These tests, writes Rebecca Onion at Slate, were 'supposedly applicable to both white and black prospective voters who couldn’t prove a certain level of education' (typically up to the fifth grade). Yet they were 'in actuality disproportionately administered to black voters.'
"Additionally, many of the tests were rigged so that registrars could give potential voters an easy or a difficult version, and could score them differently as well. For example, the Veterans of the #CivilRights Movement describes a test administered in #Alabama that is so entirely subjective that it measures the registrar’s shrewdness and cunning more than anything else.
"The test here from #Louisiana consists of questions so ambiguous that no one, whatever their level of education, can divine a 'right' or 'wrong' answer to most of them. And yet, as the instructions state, 'one wrong answer denotes failure of the test,' an impossible standard for even a legitimate exam. Even worse, voters had only ten minutes to complete the three-page, 30-question document. The Louisiana test dates from 1964, the year before the passage of the #VotingRightsAct, which effectively put an end to these blatantly discriminatory practices."
Read more:
https://www.openculture.com/2024/10/take-the-near-impossible-literacy-test-louisiana-used-to-suppress-the-black-vote.html#Disenfranchisement #VoterDisenfranchisement #VoterSuppression #History #USHistory #Elections2024
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Take The Near Impossible #LiteracyTest #Louisiana Used to Suppress the #BlackVote (1964)
in History, Politics | October 21st, 2024
"In William Faulkner’s 1938 novel The Unvanquished, the implacable Colonel Sartoris takes drastic action to stop the election of a black Republican candidate to office after the Civil War, destroying the #ballots of #BlackVoters and shooting two Northern carpetbaggers. While such dramatic means of #VoterSuppression occurred often enough in the Reconstruction South, tactics of electoral exclusion refined over time, such that by the mid-twentieth century the #JimCrowSouth relied largely on nearly impossible-to-pass literacy tests to impede free and fair elections.
"These tests, writes Rebecca Onion at Slate, were 'supposedly applicable to both white and black prospective voters who couldn’t prove a certain level of education' (typically up to the fifth grade). Yet they were 'in actuality disproportionately administered to black voters.'
"Additionally, many of the tests were rigged so that registrars could give potential voters an easy or a difficult version, and could score them differently as well. For example, the Veterans of the #CivilRights Movement describes a test administered in #Alabama that is so entirely subjective that it measures the registrar’s shrewdness and cunning more than anything else.
"The test here from #Louisiana consists of questions so ambiguous that no one, whatever their level of education, can divine a 'right' or 'wrong' answer to most of them. And yet, as the instructions state, 'one wrong answer denotes failure of the test,' an impossible standard for even a legitimate exam. Even worse, voters had only ten minutes to complete the three-page, 30-question document. The Louisiana test dates from 1964, the year before the passage of the #VotingRightsAct, which effectively put an end to these blatantly discriminatory practices."
Read more:
https://www.openculture.com/2024/10/take-the-near-impossible-literacy-test-louisiana-used-to-suppress-the-black-vote.html#Disenfranchisement #VoterDisenfranchisement #VoterSuppression #History #USHistory #Elections2024
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Take The Near Impossible #LiteracyTest #Louisiana Used to Suppress the #BlackVote (1964)
in History, Politics | October 21st, 2024
"In William Faulkner’s 1938 novel The Unvanquished, the implacable Colonel Sartoris takes drastic action to stop the election of a black Republican candidate to office after the Civil War, destroying the #ballots of #BlackVoters and shooting two Northern carpetbaggers. While such dramatic means of #VoterSuppression occurred often enough in the Reconstruction South, tactics of electoral exclusion refined over time, such that by the mid-twentieth century the #JimCrowSouth relied largely on nearly impossible-to-pass literacy tests to impede free and fair elections.
"These tests, writes Rebecca Onion at Slate, were 'supposedly applicable to both white and black prospective voters who couldn’t prove a certain level of education' (typically up to the fifth grade). Yet they were 'in actuality disproportionately administered to black voters.'
"Additionally, many of the tests were rigged so that registrars could give potential voters an easy or a difficult version, and could score them differently as well. For example, the Veterans of the #CivilRights Movement describes a test administered in #Alabama that is so entirely subjective that it measures the registrar’s shrewdness and cunning more than anything else.
"The test here from #Louisiana consists of questions so ambiguous that no one, whatever their level of education, can divine a 'right' or 'wrong' answer to most of them. And yet, as the instructions state, 'one wrong answer denotes failure of the test,' an impossible standard for even a legitimate exam. Even worse, voters had only ten minutes to complete the three-page, 30-question document. The Louisiana test dates from 1964, the year before the passage of the #VotingRightsAct, which effectively put an end to these blatantly discriminatory practices."
Read more:
https://www.openculture.com/2024/10/take-the-near-impossible-literacy-test-louisiana-used-to-suppress-the-black-vote.html#Disenfranchisement #VoterDisenfranchisement #VoterSuppression #History #USHistory #Elections2024
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Take The Near Impossible #LiteracyTest #Louisiana Used to Suppress the #BlackVote (1964)
in History, Politics | October 21st, 2024
"In William Faulkner’s 1938 novel The Unvanquished, the implacable Colonel Sartoris takes drastic action to stop the election of a black Republican candidate to office after the Civil War, destroying the #ballots of #BlackVoters and shooting two Northern carpetbaggers. While such dramatic means of #VoterSuppression occurred often enough in the Reconstruction South, tactics of electoral exclusion refined over time, such that by the mid-twentieth century the #JimCrowSouth relied largely on nearly impossible-to-pass literacy tests to impede free and fair elections.
"These tests, writes Rebecca Onion at Slate, were 'supposedly applicable to both white and black prospective voters who couldn’t prove a certain level of education' (typically up to the fifth grade). Yet they were 'in actuality disproportionately administered to black voters.'
"Additionally, many of the tests were rigged so that registrars could give potential voters an easy or a difficult version, and could score them differently as well. For example, the Veterans of the #CivilRights Movement describes a test administered in #Alabama that is so entirely subjective that it measures the registrar’s shrewdness and cunning more than anything else.
"The test here from #Louisiana consists of questions so ambiguous that no one, whatever their level of education, can divine a 'right' or 'wrong' answer to most of them. And yet, as the instructions state, 'one wrong answer denotes failure of the test,' an impossible standard for even a legitimate exam. Even worse, voters had only ten minutes to complete the three-page, 30-question document. The Louisiana test dates from 1964, the year before the passage of the #VotingRightsAct, which effectively put an end to these blatantly discriminatory practices."
Read more:
https://www.openculture.com/2024/10/take-the-near-impossible-literacy-test-louisiana-used-to-suppress-the-black-vote.html#Disenfranchisement #VoterDisenfranchisement #VoterSuppression #History #USHistory #Elections2024
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Take The Near Impossible #LiteracyTest #Louisiana Used to Suppress the #BlackVote (1964)
in History, Politics | October 21st, 2024
"In William Faulkner’s 1938 novel The Unvanquished, the implacable Colonel Sartoris takes drastic action to stop the election of a black Republican candidate to office after the Civil War, destroying the #ballots of #BlackVoters and shooting two Northern carpetbaggers. While such dramatic means of #VoterSuppression occurred often enough in the Reconstruction South, tactics of electoral exclusion refined over time, such that by the mid-twentieth century the #JimCrowSouth relied largely on nearly impossible-to-pass literacy tests to impede free and fair elections.
"These tests, writes Rebecca Onion at Slate, were 'supposedly applicable to both white and black prospective voters who couldn’t prove a certain level of education' (typically up to the fifth grade). Yet they were 'in actuality disproportionately administered to black voters.'
"Additionally, many of the tests were rigged so that registrars could give potential voters an easy or a difficult version, and could score them differently as well. For example, the Veterans of the #CivilRights Movement describes a test administered in #Alabama that is so entirely subjective that it measures the registrar’s shrewdness and cunning more than anything else.
"The test here from #Louisiana consists of questions so ambiguous that no one, whatever their level of education, can divine a 'right' or 'wrong' answer to most of them. And yet, as the instructions state, 'one wrong answer denotes failure of the test,' an impossible standard for even a legitimate exam. Even worse, voters had only ten minutes to complete the three-page, 30-question document. The Louisiana test dates from 1964, the year before the passage of the #VotingRightsAct, which effectively put an end to these blatantly discriminatory practices."
Read more:
https://www.openculture.com/2024/10/take-the-near-impossible-literacy-test-louisiana-used-to-suppress-the-black-vote.html#Disenfranchisement #VoterDisenfranchisement #VoterSuppression #History #USHistory #Elections2024
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Hard To Watch - #MSNBC @alexwagner managed to find the most tragically #uninformed #BlackVoters in #Philly 😪
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Hard To Watch - #MSNBC @alexwagner managed to find the most tragically #uninformed #BlackVoters in #Philly 😪
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Hard To Watch - #MSNBC @alexwagner managed to find the most tragically #uninformed #BlackVoters in #Philly 😪
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Hard To Watch - #MSNBC @alexwagner managed to find the most tragically #uninformed #BlackVoters in #Philly 😪
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Hard To Watch - #MSNBC @alexwagner managed to find the most tragically #uninformed #BlackVoters in #Philly 😪
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Could #Harris Take #Florida and #NorthCarolina? The Data Suggests She Can.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/kamala-harris-florida-north-carolina/
If Harris’s support among #Blackvoters continues to consolidate as it has over the past two months, then she stands a very strong chance of winning both states.
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EXCERPT from THE POLITICRAT daily #podcast
A Convo With #Philadelphia Commisioner/Chair Omar Sabir
“Ballot behavior dictates policy decisions.”
—Sabir, on Black, Brown, Asian voters in Philadelphia and beyond needing to recognize their voting power
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-politicrat/id1503246845?i=1000670040469
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"Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock told the audience: 'A vote is a kind of prayer for the kind of world we desire for ourselves and for our children, and we are stronger when we pray together.'"
#Democrats #DNC #KamalaHarris #TimWalz #VotingRights #VoteSuppression #BlackVoters #Georgia #RaphaelWarnock
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