Ignorance breeds contempt.
I was stunned into eye-rolling disbelief and embarrassed silence the first time I heard a rumor about the Voting Rights Act of 1965. When I began writing columns a few years ago, I’d get e-mails from black people concerned about their voting rights. Some thought that when the Act expired, blacks would lose the right to vote.
This is what happens when people allow hysteria and race-baiting to override common sense.
The Fifteenth Amendment prevented states from denying citizens the right to vote based on race, and whites tried to keep them from voting by a variety of ill-conceived tricks. Such was the “grandfather clause.” One had to descend from citizens who had the right to vote, which meant, in most cases, former slaves and their descendants couldn’t vote. These clauses were unconstitutional, so declared the Supreme Court in Guinn v. United States.
There’s no greater motivation than determination. Some states continued to disenfranchise blacks by requiring literacy tests. As educating slaves was illegal, there was an educational lag between former slaves, their descendants, and everybody else. Literacy tests were a blatant and obvious attempt to further disenfranchise blacks, although it unintentionally did the same to illiterate whites. In the face of this resistance, President Lyndon Johnson signed into law the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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Blogroll — As you can see, my blogroll is very long. At this point, I’m more interested in trimming it than adding to it. On occasion, I surf through the roll, deleting blogs that haven’t been updated in the past month and replacing them with new ones. As I’m very busy these days, I don’t do this as often as I’d like.
If you’ve sent requests for reciprocal links and haven’t received one, don’t take offense. Sometimes I don’t want to link to the blog for various reasons; other times I add the link or intend to add it, but don’t get around to it. That’s the way the blogosphere works sometimes. Fortunately, nobody is obliged to link to anybody, although it’s considered good etiquette to link to a blog you’ve referenced in a post.
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Update II: Illegal Immigration From A Biblical Point of View
One more thing: no matter what you think of Rush Limbaugh, you need to listen to him on this immigration issue. He always, always makes me feel better when I’m this angry. He might do the same for you. Listen online here.
Update (3/30): Michelle Malkin has more info about our “undocumented” workers.
Also see Pro-Enforcement, Not Anti-Immigrant , Illegal Aliens Threated U.S. Health System, FAIR, Internet Pilot Program, and last but most important — one way to discourage idiotic businesses that hire illegal aliens is to sue them under RICO.
Focusing all of our energy on border jumpers won’t solve the problem. We need to put pressure of businesses, report the ones who hire illegal aliens, generate some press – something. Visit We Hire Aliens, and do what you can do.
Also see A Nation of Outlaws, Part I and Part II.
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I’m trying to calm down before I blog about the illegal alien protests. (Leo Jarzomb/Staff photo via Michelle Malkin)
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[Note: Read this story about black couples renewing their vows.]
I’m no expert on marriage (its benefits or detriments) or children or women or black people; my impressions are based on almost four decades of interaction with and observation of marriage and children and women and black people.
This post addresses the well-linked article, Marriage Is for White People indirectly; I won’t go through it and comment on each paragraph. What I have to say encompasses more than one writer’s personal experience or the “marriage is for white people” meme. Besides the assiduous use of the term “African American,” the article rings true on many levels.
Fellow Christian and blogger Independent Conservative takes issue with the writer’s contentions in this must-read post.
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