06-26-2018, 01:32 PM
(06-26-2018, 01:27 PM)GMDino Wrote: Jim Crow?!?!
"Your argument is moot!" ~ The Usual Suspects.
All seriousness aside you're spot on as usual.
In the official minutes of the General Assembly session here in Virginia that debated the law to disenfranchise felons, the sponsors of the bill outright said it was to target freed slaves. They applied it to laws that black people broke more often than white people. Well, more well-to-do white people; they had a succeeding discussion about how they didn't care that poor white folks would get caught up in it because who cares about the poor?
Yet felon disenfranchisement is still the law of the land here in Virginia, even though it is verifiable that it was enacted with racist intentions. Because the policy is neutral on its face it stands up to scrutiny.
Also, I wish I was being hyperbolic, here. I'm really not. And this is a similar story as to how these laws came to be passed in other states. We just have the official record to prove it.
"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
