Tea Party candidate calls African Americans mongrels

It's literally about taking away the ability to vote from American citizens.

Taking away free citizens' right to vote is literally disenfranchising them.

That is now how you make freedom work.



People who cared a lot more about freedom and equality than you.

it is logical.
i still need to register here.
be nice to know i was smart enough to vote.

population explosion.

agreed

all are equal.

but that never stopped anyone.

I never asked you anything in the first place.

No, it merely stipulates that anyone who wants to vote, ANYONE, can do so if they care enough to qualify by taking the ultra-simple test.



Yes, everyone, anyone, would be free to qualify to vote.

SHOULD FREEDOM BE DEPENDENT ON THE VOTES OF THE IGNORANT?

in the ole days.
all a white man needed to know how to do was make an "X".

How about you take and pass the Jim Crow test of 1964?
No cheating now!
1) If a person charged with treason denies his guilt, how many persons must testify against him before he can be convicted? ________

2) At what time of day on January 20 each four years does the term of the president of the United States end? ________

3) If the president does not wish to sign a bill, how many days is he allowed in which to return it to Congress for reconsideration? ________

4) In what year did the Congress gain the right to prohibit the migration of persons to the states? ________

5) The power of granting patents, that is, the securing to inventors the exclusive right to their discoveries, is given to the Congress for the purpose of ________.

6) If the United States wishes to purchase land for an arsenal and have exclusive legislative authority over it, consent is required from ________.

1) Two
2) 12 noon
3) 10
4) 1808
5) promoting progress
6) Legislature

Of course things were much worse then- but I'd prefer not to recall any of this.
In the rural counties where most folk lived, you had to go down to the courthouse to register. The Registrars Office was only open two or three days each month for a couple of hours, usually in the morning or afternoon. You had to take off work ? with or without your employer?s permission ? to register. And if a white employer gave such permission, or failed to fire Black who tried to vote, he could be driven out of business by economic retaliation from the Citizens Council.

As well- you might get a chance to take the test on a chance to get to vote if:
On the occasional registration day, the county Sheriff and his deputies made it their business to hang around the courthouse to discourage ?undesirables? from trying to register. This meant that Black women and men had to run a gauntlet of intimidation, insults, threats, and sometimes arrest on phony charges, just to get to the Registration Office. Once in the Registrars Office they faced hatred, harassment, and humiliation from clerks and officials.

The Alabama Application Form and oaths you had to take were four pages long. It was designed to intimidate and threaten. You had to swear that your answers to every single question were true under penalty of perjury. And you knew that the information you entered on the form would be passed on to the Citizens Council and KKK

The test was organized into Part A and Part B:

In ?Part A? the applicant was given a selection of the Constitution to read aloud. The registrar could assign you a long complex section filled with legalese and convoluted sentences, or he could tell you to read a simple one or two sentence section. The Registrar marked each word he thought you mispronounced. In some cases you had to orally interpret the section to the registrar?s satisfaction. You then had to either copy out by hand a section of the Constitution, or write it down from dictation as the registrar spoke (mumbled) it. White applicants usually were allowed to copy, Black applicants usually had to take dictation. The Registrar then judged whether you were able to ?read and write,? or if you were ?illiterate.?

In Parts ?B? and ?C,? you had to answer two different sets of four written questions each. Part ?B? was 4 questions based on the excerpt you had written down. Part ?C? consisted of 4 ?general knowledge? questions about state and national government.

The tests were graded in secret. Even if a black person got the answers right for every question, the registrar could still declare him or her to be ?unqualified? to vote.
https://www.pensitoreview.com/2010/02/06/could-tea-baggers-pass-tancredos-poll-test/

And blacks required to jump through fiery hoops balanced on one foot and with 20 lbs on their heads to vote.

sounds like white folks had it much easier to vote.
we even got to sign our name "X".