TagsTagsNext target on the Republican Party's hit list: the Voting Rights Act that guarantees minorities access to the ballot box. In a political system where even the most trivial issues trigger partisan rancor, the Voting Rights Act has stood for several decades as a rare point of bipartisan consensus. Until now. An ...
Republican Party, Voting Rights Act, Racism, Jim Crow, Atavism
A pretty amazing statement (and not in a good way) from New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who made an argument against a measure legalizing gay marriage by comparing it to the civil rights movement -- and ended up saying that the civil unrest of the 1950s and 60s could have ...
Chris Christie, civil rights, Gay Rights, Jim Crow, Idiocy, WTF
Ruthelle Frank is one of the true heroes in the fight to keep the Republican Party from passing their new Jim Crow "voter ID" laws, intended to disenfranchise minorities who tend to vote Democratic: At 84, she lacks identification, but not will to fight voter ID law. Brokaw - ...
Republican Party, Voter ID, Disenfranchisement, Dirty Politics, Jim Crow
The pastor of the Shiloh Baptist Church (visited by the Obama family on Easter) says he's received more than 100 threatening phone calls and emails since Sean Hannity's Monday night show on Fox News: Shiloh Baptist Church receives threats after comments from Sean Hannity. The Rev. Wallace Charles Smith said ...
President Obama, Racism, sean hannity, Fox News, Incitement, Jim Crow