Democrats blast GOP lawmaker's "suppress the Detroit vote."

[dand]

Democrats on Wednesday denounced a Republican lawmaker quoted in the July 16th issue of the Detroit free press as saying, "if we do not suppress the Detroit vote, we're going to have a tough time in this election."
Blacks comprise 83% of Detroit's population. Anything familiar here?



http://www.freep.com/news/statewire/sw101420_20040721.htm

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. After the Civil Rights Act of 1964,

the racists all moved to the Republican Party. Lincoln has spun in his grave so much since then that I'm surprised his tomb's spire isn't a corkscrew by now.

[LoZoccolo]

2. This is good that it was exposed.

Because the blowback from it might increase the Detroit vote.

[Demeter]

3. As A Native Daughter of Detroit, I Am Proud (if Baffled)

that the city didn't explode in a riot on the scale of 1967 (I was a mere girl at that time).

Of course, the city is half the size population it was then, and its current per capita income is probably a third of the value of same in 1967, and it's not been quite so hot, and nobody's been openly assassinated lately (although suspicions about Mel Carrigan and Paul Wellstone cannot be dismissed out of hand, any more than the curious appearance of the Bush family in the Kennedy assassination in Dallas lo these many years ago).