This is all they do. Smears and lies Tancredo says he wants only citizens to be able to vote and he wants immigrants to be legal and everyone residing here to learn English and the Leftovers say this is about black people and keeping black from voting
Why should blacks let this trash speak for them? ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Pearson <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 10:19 PM Subject: [PresidentBarakObama] TEA PARTY OPENING SPEAKER SUGGESTS BLACKS BE KEPT FROM VOTING To: From: Greg *? 2 ALL: TEA PARTY OPENING SPEAKER SUGGESTS BLACKS BE KEPT FROM VOTING - WHAT ARE YOUR COMMENTS?* *[image: The literacy tests Tim Tancredo pined for at the Tea Party convention were once used in the South to keep blacks from voting.] * *Via ABC* ** *The opening night speaker at the Tea Party * *convention suggested a * *return to a "literacy **test" to protect America from presidents like * *Obama -- a segregation- era method employed **by southern US states * *to keep blacks from voting.* ** *In his **speec**h Thursday** to attendees, former **Republican congressman * *Tom Tancredo (above) invoked **the loaded pre-civil rights era buzzword, * *saying **that President Barack Obama was elected **because "we do not * *have a civics, literacy test **before people can vote in this country."* ** *Southern states used literacy tests as part of **an effort to deny suffrage * *to African American **voters prior to Johnson-era civil rights laws.* ** *- Raw Story* ===== *Hi Team!* **? 2 ALL: * *TEA PARTY OPENING* *SPEAKER SUGGESTS BLACKS * *BE KEPT FROM VOTING - * "Prior to passage of the federal Voting Rights Act in 1965, Southern (and some Western)[image: citschool Invoking literacy test, Tea Party opening speaker suggests blacks be kept from voting] states maintained elaborate voter registration procedures whose primary purpose was to deny the vote to those who were not white," a website for civil rights veterans explains. "In the South, this process was often called the 'literacy test.' In fact, it was much more than a simple test, it was an entire complex system devoted to denying African-Americans (and in some regions, Latinos) the right to vote. "Because the Freedom Movement was running "Citizenship Schools" to help people learn how to fill out the forms and pass the test, Alabama changed the test 4 times in less than two years (1964-1965), " the site adds. "At the time of the Selma Voting Rights campaign there were actually 100 different tests in use across the state. In theory, each applicant was supposed to be given one at random from a big loose-leaf binder. In real life, some individual tests were easier than others and the registrar made sure that Black applicants got the hardest ones." "'White applicants," John Byrne reports, "could be approved even if they didn't pass the test." "Your application was then reviewed by the three-member Board of Registrars — often in secret at a later date," the site continues. "They voted on whether or not you passed. It was entirely up to the judgment of the Board whether you passed or failed. If you were white and missed every single question they could still pass you if — in their sole judgment — you were 'qualified.' If you were Black and got every one correct, they could still flunk you if they considered you 'unqualified. '" [image: Joan Billman of Greencastle, Ind., signs the back of a poster of former Alaska governor Sarah Palin at the conference. Palin will be paid a reported $100,000 to give the keynote address at the gathering.] ** *(above): Joan Billman of Greencastle, Ind., signs the back of a poster of former Alaska governor Sarah Palin at the conference. Palin will be paid a reported $100,000 to give the keynote address at the gathering. (Melina Mara/the Washington Post)* *Tea Party opening speaker suggests blacks be kept from voting - what are your comments?* *Greg Dempsey **http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/SECULARHUM ANIST *<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SECULARHUMANIST> *Voice Of The People* *=====* ** ** Invoking ‘literacy test,’ Tea Party opening speaker suggests blacks be kept from voting ** ** *By **John **Byrne* *Friday, February 5th, 2010 -- 9:38 am* *Tom Tancredo, who is known for his sharp anti-immigrant rhetoric, also attacked what he called the United States' "cult of multiculturalism, " and tore into 2008 Republican Presidential nominee Sen. John McCain (R-AZ).* *"Thank God John McCain lost the election," Tancredo told the Tea Party crowd, citing his positions on government spending and immigration.* *"This is our country," he added. "Let's take it back."* *Southern voting registrars could employ literacy tests arbitrarily. They included dauntingly difficult questions, aimed at keeping those they didn't want enfranchised from voting.* *For example, an Alabama literacy test required would-be voters to know esoteric facts about the US political and legal system (one of the literacy tests can be **r**ead ** at http://www.crmvet. org/info/ litques.pdf<http://www.crmvet.org/info/litques.pdf> ).* *Among the questions:* *"If a person charged with treason denies his guilt, how many persons must testify against him before he can be convicted?"* *"If a president does not wish to sign a bill, how many days is he allowed in which to return it to Congress for consideration? "* *"If the United States wishes to purchase land for an arsenal and have exclusive legislative authority over it, consent is required from [fill in the blank]."* *The answers to the above questions are two, ten and the legislature, respectively.* *Tancredo called Obama a "committed socialist ideologue," and referred to him by his full name, Barack Hussein Obama.* *ABC News reported that the former California representative' s speech "received enthusiastic applause at times," but said the crowd did not fill the ballroom in which the event was held.* *- Raw Story* -- Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time. 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