THANK YOU, TYRONE

[Samantha]

17. Somewhere along the line of reading a myriad of political books

I read that it was Karl Rove's plan to incorporate politics into the churches in the south, using wedge issues such as the abortion controversy, as a way of siphoning votes from Dems to the Republicans. Just as you were told voting for Richard Nixon would be a mortal sin in your Catholic school, naive religious voters in the South have been sucked into thinking that a vote for the Democrats would be a sin against God. It is outrageous really that pastors and other church officials have not been called out on this publicly but it has been allowed to continue. One would think people would eventually wake up to what is going on when these people they vote for continually vote against their best interests but I imagine they are simply blinded by their religious views.

Many Democrats in the South defected to the Republican party following the Voting Rights Act of 1965. It was their prejudice that motivated them to align with the Republicans, who to this day continue to openly legislate against minority voters. Who can understand it, really?

Sam