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SuchFriendsAreDangerous · 06.25.2013, 09:01 PM

So first the Supreme Court decides that corporate money is somehow an individual person, negating over one hundred years of American law which regulates the greed of corporate and business influence on American political structures, both local and national. Low and behold, the 2012 elections were even MORE expensive than the 2008 elections, which cost upwards of $2 BILLION dollars. Sighs.

NOW? The Court just decided that the 1965 Voter Rights Act is irrelevant and redundant. What? Excuse me? Have they not been paying attention to the all the racist legislation pending in Texas, Alabama, and Florida, ALL states governed by the section 5 clause of that Act? Further, did they not realize that out of 800,000 official requests for voter law changes in the past years, ONLY EIGHTY were rejected which means that the Act has NOT been discriminatory or restricting to states under section 5, rather, those have been empowered 799,920 times to change their voter laws as they see fit? How is that exactly cumbersome government intrusion into states' business?!

Fuck that. Jim Crow is coming back y'all. The Court made these same kinds of blunders in the 1850s, 1870s, 1910s, and now 2010s which are what opened the door for Jim Crow in the first place. When we teach American students about the history of Jim Crow and racist laws, we use the Court decisions which enabled these as a chronological marker and bullet point. These past two Court decisions will in a few short years mark that same transition. Maybe its not black and white anymore, but racist laws are all over the books. We're not stupid.

Oh yeah, its not that I believe in voting. Voting is a crock of shit. Its that I'm not blind, I can smell some racist bullshit when I see it.

Watch. In 2014 the state of Florida will turn back the clock 100 years when they simultaneously exonerate (if not vindicate in the eyes of a lot of racist people) Zimmerman for lynching Trayvon Martin AND also enact racist voter ID laws and racist gerrymandering of local and national districts within that state.

06.25.2013, 09:01 PM	#1
SuchFriendsAreDangerous invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: fucking Los Angeles Posts: 14,801	So first the Supreme Court decides that corporate money is somehow an individual person, negating over one hundred years of American law which regulates the greed of corporate and business influence on American political structures, both local and national. Low and behold, the 2012 elections were even MORE expensive than the 2008 elections, which cost upwards of $2 BILLION dollars. Sighs. NOW? The Court just decided that the 1965 Voter Rights Act is irrelevant and redundant. What? Excuse me? Have they not been paying attention to the all the racist legislation pending in Texas, Alabama, and Florida, ALL states governed by the section 5 clause of that Act? Further, did they not realize that out of 800,000 official requests for voter law changes in the past years, ONLY EIGHTY were rejected which means that the Act has NOT been discriminatory or restricting to states under section 5, rather, those have been empowered 799,920 times to change their voter laws as they see fit? How is that exactly cumbersome government intrusion into states' business?! Fuck that. Jim Crow is coming back y'all. The Court made these same kinds of blunders in the 1850s, 1870s, 1910s, and now 2010s which are what opened the door for Jim Crow in the first place. When we teach American students about the history of Jim Crow and racist laws, we use the Court decisions which enabled these as a chronological marker and bullet point. These past two Court decisions will in a few short years mark that same transition. Maybe its not black and white anymore, but racist laws are all over the books. We're not stupid. Oh yeah, its not that I believe in voting. Voting is a crock of shit. Its that I'm not blind, I can smell some racist bullshit when I see it. Watch. In 2014 the state of Florida will turn back the clock 100 years when they simultaneously exonerate (if not vindicate in the eyes of a lot of racist people) Zimmerman for lynching Trayvon Martin AND also enact racist voter ID laws and racist gerrymandering of local and national districts within that state. __________________ Today Rap music is the Lakers
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