GOP Rebellion Stops Voting Rights Act

This is ridiculous.  The renewal of The Voting Rights Act provisions are being held up because some members of congress through in a clause requiring bilingual ballots? 

Now a bill which was created because of discriminatory voting tactics of southern whites that prevented blacks from voting is being held up because of bilingual ballots.  In America we speak English.  If you are eligible to vote in this country then you need to know how to speak the language.  I am all for responsible and legal immigration, but I will be damned if the lawmakers of this country hold up the passage of this bill because of immigration.  Black people are not immigrants to this country.  We were and are citizens.  We did not come to this country we helped shaped it.  The issue of immigrants who came to this country and did not learn how to speak English should not hold up the extension of the provisions of the Voting Rights act.

I do think that southern republicans are using this to hold up the process because they do not feel that the provisions are necessary.  They fell that racial profiling and discrimination against black people is a thing of the past and that we should just move on.

Bull SH@#$#!!!!!

Remember the past two elections??? How in some areas blacks were told if they owed taxes or back child support they would be arrested if they went to the polls to vote?  Remember in Florida when people who were car pooling and giving rides to blacks to get them to the polls were pulled over and harassed by police????  That was only a few years ago. 

There are still certain parts of the south that black people are not welcome.  In certain areas of the south and in this country, the Ku Klux Klan is alive and well.  And as long as there are hate groups in this country, there will continue to be a need for the provisions of this act. Shame on you Congress!!!  It is no wonder that some black people in this country feel like second class citizens…….  

GOP Rebellion Stops Voting Rights Act

By Charles Babington

House leaders abruptly canceled a vote to renew the 1965 Voting Rights Act yesterday after rank-and-file Republicans revolted over provisions that require bilingual ballots in many places and continued federal oversight of voting practices in Southern states.