Tancredo at teabaggers convention: law that kept blacks from voting should be reinstated

http://rawstory.com/2010/02/tea-party-opening-speaker-suggests-blacks-voting/

The opening night speaker at the Tea Party convention suggested a return to a "literacy test" to protect America from presidents like Obama -- a segregation-era method employed by southern US states to keep blacks from voting.

In his speech Thursday to attendees, former Republican congressman Tom Tancredo invoked the loaded pre-civil rights era buzzword, saying that President Barack Obama was elected because "we do not have a civics, literacy test before people can vote in this country."

Southern states used literacy tests as part of an effort to deny suffrage to African American voters prior to Johnson-era civil rights laws.

"Prior to passage of the federal Voting Rights Act in 1965, Southern (and some Western) states maintained elaborate voter registration procedures whose primary purpose was to deny the vote to those who were not white," a website for civil rights veterans explains. "In the South, this process was often called the 'literacy test.' In fact, it was much more than a simple test, it was an entire complex system devoted to denying African-Americans (and in some regions, Latinos) the right to vote."

on his "side" seem to be dumber than a box of rocks. I doubt they could spell "literacy", let alone pass a literacy test.

As to the idea itself, he can shove it up his ass.

Educated liberals voting up against the Limbaugh "morans" crowd. Yeah, that's do that please.

back to the other teabagger meme : returning to the simpler times of the 19th century....

makes me fucking sick. Nobody calls them out on this mess.

is a perfect icon for this party.

I'm really shocked over that -- NOT.

most of your idiot teabagging friends wouldn't pass anyway.

point out that the Tea Party is full of bigoted assholes-that would make you an elitist snob.

mike kohr