Ever since Reconstruction there has been a segment of American society devoted to disenfranchising non-white voters. They've been very creative and tireless. Every time voter rights advocates make gains these people find a way to claw them back. Over the last 40 years so called wars on drugs and crime have been just as effective in disenfranchising black and brown people as old school Jim Crow. These have been joined by all sorts of new voter suppression tactics over the last few years. I for one find it suspicious that the voter suppression movement shifted into high gear right after the election of our first Black President.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/01/the-new-jim-crow-how-drug_n_1849726.html
http://www.newjimcrow.com/
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/07/b...w-raises-drug-law-debates.html?pagewanted=all
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/09/john-lewis-connects-gop-voter-suppression-to-jim-crow.php
If your vote didn’t matter, they wouldn’t be passing laws to make it as hard as possible for you to do it.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/01/the-new-jim-crow-how-drug_n_1849726.html
http://www.newjimcrow.com/
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/07/b...w-raises-drug-law-debates.html?pagewanted=all
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/09/john-lewis-connects-gop-voter-suppression-to-jim-crow.php
If your vote didn’t matter, they wouldn’t be passing laws to make it as hard as possible for you to do it.
