Rob Rogers for March 01, 2013

You should at least be able to read what you are voting for.Not sure what that has to do with skin color, Robbie?

The ones that are happy ( black or white ) are the ones that are sitting on their backsides with their hand stuck out, laughing at the poor working slobs who are feeding them.

I assure you it’s not remotely near “all americans”

You hit the nail on the head.

I heard that Mitch McConnell is going to change his name to Mitcho McConnellez.

What does “racial entitlement” mean? In general and particularly concerning voting rights? What exactly is the problem?

Seriously?A black man has obtained the highest office in the land.There are black men and women mayors of major cities now covered by the VRA.

Remember the 14th Amendment: “…equal protection under the law.”

It is now time to decide.Do I want and get special treatment due to race?ORDo I move forward, stand on my own and step out of the shadow of protectionism. If I clinging to the Voting Rights Act I will never be allowed “equal protection under the law.”

As long as there is protectionism, quotas, set-asides and the VRA, then someone will always be suspicion that I did not make it on merit alone, I got special treatment.

That would guarantee the demise of the Republican party.

Impediments to registration, photo ID laws, shortened hours of voting, fewer places to vote, etc. Many tactics declared unconstituional by lower court judges. And you know what, Obama was reelected anyway.

It indeed is NOT just about “race” with the “tests” dreamed up, and it is a national issue, not just a few states or precincts. Of course, if folks had to answer say 5 questions from the naturalization test to vote, allowed to miss one, 90% of TEA party folks wouldn’t be voting, and right-wing “conservatives” and “dittoheads” wouldn’t even need to waste the gas to show up. I love it when Rush touts his Constitution course, apparently conducted by folks like himself, who’ve never read it, but only accepted their own “interpretation”.

The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind.

David Horsey draws some great cartoons.

Right, no Democrats work for a living. Right.

Here’s what I see. The right to vote is clearly should be guaranteed. There’s no way that making sure minority groups get a chance to vote is depriving anyone else of anything (except that it may make it harder for Republicans to win elections). But some people associate voting rights with affirmative action programs, and they believe in their little dried-up hearts that affirmative action programs give members of minority groups special privileges (which usually isn’t true), so in their little dried-up hearts they somehow think that members of minority groups shouldn’t have their voting rights guaranteed, either. Deep down they are upset that their historical position of privilege (which they don’t see as privilege, but just as what’s owed to them because they are in the dominant group, though often in the lower end of the dominant group) is being challenged. The affirmative action programs that I know about never say that someone unqualified should get a position — only that people who are in fact qualified should not be deprived of a position because they belong to an “affirmative action category” — which can include “race”, or gender, and so on. Anyway who can say with a straight face that historically there’s been a level playing field in the US is just deluded. And Scalia’s argument is totally absurd.

Jim Crow is alive and well and sitting on the Supreme Court.

Closet racists say, “I’m not racist, I have lots of Black friends.” Then again, by the looks of your writing you’re just angry you failed the literacy test.

Excellent post.

“If you can’t beat ’em, cheat ’em.”

how true. Bigots and liars raising Cain!

Five… Scalia, Thomas, Roberts, Alito and Kennedy.