Why the GOP doesn't want people of color to vote

Let’s face it, the Republican Party does not want most people of color in Arizona or nationwide to vote.

Why? Because most people of color don’t vote for them.

The so-called “party of Lincoln” may have helped free the slaves, but it has spent the bulk of its history since building a record of discrimination against people of color.

Instead of the party of Abraham Lincoln, the GOP has become “the party of almost all white people.” It’s an image the Republican Party began building in earnest when it decided to oppose passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

That year’s Republican presidential nominee, then-U.S. Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona, purportedly opposed the bill on constitutional grounds and not because he was racist. His defenders note that Goldwater had backed earlier civil rights legislation, was a founding member of the Arizona NAACP, and helped establish American Legion Post 41 in South Phoenix when Latino military vets faced discrimination at posts north of Van Buren Street – the city’s racial and ethnic borderline at the time.

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