10-03-2016, 10:22 AM
(10-02-2016, 08:37 PM)JustWinBaby Wrote: Whites outnumber blacks 5 or 6 to 1. So there are more white people - almost twice as many - living below the poverty line than black people.
So how exactly are voter ID laws specifically targeting blacks?
So, were Jim Crow laws racist? Poll taxes, testing, all of those things that were barriers to voting in those laws also affected white people, probably in larger numbers than minorities, but they affected a greater percentage of minorities than white people. So your logic applied to Jim Crow would be that it was not racist.
I just want to make sure I understand your argument.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
