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Originally Posted by Ayatollahgondola
I'm not saying we should ignore it. But if the administration goes that direction it will be for specific purposes like the voter intimidation. The issue here should be that and not race, so we don't let them sidetrack the punishable violation. Once people get caught up in racial strife, it will just go on and on. Don't arrest the guy for being a racist; Arrest him for voter intimidation. That's the clear cut case as I see it.
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That's it. The history of
black liberation in the south was the struggle against Jim Crow laws and the struggle to make the polls available to black voters. Many black activists in the south realized very early that it wasn't just black voters who were having a hard time at the polls. The election process itself is constantly a target for all kinds of corruption. They won the polls back for everyone and won a lot of white respect too which yielded election victories for black nominees.
Race is definitely a straw dog here and corruption is the real issue.
It Came From Chicago. JFK also won Chicago with dead "voters".