The Old South is Not Dead Yet: Suppressing the Vote by Rev. JESSE JACKSON

[Better Believe It]

March 07, 2012
The Old South is Not Dead Yet
Suppressing the Vote
by Rev. JESSE JACKSON

In Selma, Ala., on Sunday, I joined thousands of citizens marching across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, marking the 47th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the 1965 march and police riot that helped spark the passage of the Voting Rights Act.

The march was not a memory to the past, but a protest of the present. In Alabama, conservatives are moving once more to suppress the vote, part of a concerted effort across the country to make it harder for the poor, the elderly and minorities to vote.

Alabama’s voter ID law will require citizens to present photo identification at the polls. An Alabama immigration law requires police to determine citizenship status during traffic stops, essentially exposing Latino citizens and non-citizens to constant harassment.

Photo ID laws have been introduced or passed in at least 15 states. They discriminate against those who don’t have driver’s licenses — disproportionately poor, elderly and minorities. Nationally they could disenfranchise about 5 million voters. Several states are also pushing legislation to restrict voter registration and to limit early voting.

Read the full article at:

http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/03/07/suppressing-the-vote/

[socialindependocrat]

1. We have laws against discrimination

but a state legislature will propose a discrimanatory bill

the governor will sign it into law

and

there is no one who will declair it discriminatory and
take it off the books

So, states can openly discriminate and nothing happens to them?

The DA of each state should be able to declair any new law
discriminatory and stop it from becoming law. Where's the protection for the people?

[RC]

2. Where's the protection for the people?

You're kidding, correct? Serf have no protection. We are at the mercy of our duly appointed representatives. Be thankful for that much.