Re: OT: American politics - can someone explain to an outsider?


gfretwell@xxxxxxx wrote:
On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 15:23:24 GMT, "Homer J Simpson"
<nobody@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


<gfretwell@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Some states do deny the franchise to convicted felons.

That in and of itself is clearly non democratic. And it was designed to
disenfranchise blacks.

That is about as racist a statement as I have heard for a while. Are
you trying to say blacks are predisposed to be criminals?

No. The only 'qualifying' offences were those most likely to be committed by
blacks. Those most likely to be committed by whites did not call for
disenfranchisement.

So you are still saying blacks are more likely to be violent criminals
than whites. Sounds racist to me. You quoting a racist does not help
your case.

Homer's paranoid theory, besides being offensive, has the obvious
flaw that more white felons are barred from voting than blacks. If the
purpose was to prevent black folks from voting, surely "The Man"
would've updated the laws. He hasn't.

If Homer doesn't like the history behind these laws, then maybe he
should convince the Democratic powers responsible for writing
them--they're still in power today.

Try reading the intro and concluding few paragraphs here about how
the Democrats successfully campaigned to end the black vote in Virginia
in 1902:
http://uncpress.unc.edu/chapters/dailey_before.html

"The task for the Democrats in Virginia as elsewhere in the
late-nineteenth-century South was to constrain this coalition
[of black and white voters] and with it the possibility for
progressive politics in the South. As the Epilogue details,
the Democrats pursued two simultaneous approaches to
this end: they insisted that the categories of "white man"
and "Democrat" were coterminous and exclusive, and they
limited the popular vote through election laws and a new
state constitution.

"Together, the election laws passed in the 1880s and 1890s
and the 1902 constitution ended most black voting in Virginia
and cut the white electorate in half."

BTW in Florida it is ANY ex-felon. They do not draw a distinction
between a rapist and a check kiter.

Indeed.

James Arthur

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