re: #36 goddamnedfrank

On Chris Hayes just now, guest pointed out that Alabama has voted twice recently, in 2004 and 2012, to keep language in their State Constitution prohibiting racial integration in education.

The votes are totally symbolic, because Brown v. Board invalidated racial segregation in education nationwide. But the people of Alabama were given to opportunities to remove that archaic, bigoted language from their Constitution and chose instead to keep it. The vote margin to keep the segregation language actually increased in 2012, because bigots hate Obama.

I’m kind of stunned.

Nuance Alert: I voted to keep the segregationist language in the AL constitution. It was supported by our Dem groups and the NAACP. The proprosed amendment removing it was accidentally or deliberately worded to remove the state’s obligation to educate anyone’s children.