Based on the prevalence of confetti, cheering and congratulatory speeches at the convention, it seems that the irony of the roll-call tradition was lost on those in attendance. That the convention took place in Tampa, Fla., only deepened the current of hypocrisy running through the proceedings, to which participants were oblivious.Around the country, Republican politicians, Tea Party groups and the conservative billionaires who back them are doing everything in their power to restrict the ability of certain Americans to get to the polls on Nov. 6 and vote in local, state and federal elections.The massive "voter fraud" against which these laws purport to fight has no basis in history or reality. The true purpose of these laws is to suppress the votes and voices of low-income people and people of color. History shows that creating barriers to voting like ID requirements and restricted voting hours systematically eliminates minorities from the system. And as Republican leaders have said themselves, this is precisely the point. Last week, Doug Preisse, GOP chairman for the Columbus, Ohio, area, told reporters, "I guess I really actually feel we shouldn't contort the voting process to accommodate the urban -- read African-American -- voter-turnout machine."
violation of Americans constitutional right to vote, the right likes to say it's our God given right, God gave us the ability to think and reason these rights were created by those founding guys for them and not anyone else not Native American's and surely not those 3/5ths of a human being Blacks. fair minded people corrected that atrocity and now by their own mouths they want to take us back to that.
their mad rush is about their dwindling numbers and minority status that is real now, they are attempting to seal themselves into the system they want and delay the inevitable relegation to number 2 or 3 or 4 who cares?
Republicans have attempted to thwart allegations that the "anti-voter fraud" planks of their platform are rooted in discrimination by including people of color on their roster of speakers at the convention. Tuesday night alone featured remarks by Ted Cruz, the Cuban-American GOP senatorial candidate from Texas who wants to reinstate deportation of young immigrants currently protected under President Obama's deferred action policy; Nikki Haley, the Indian-American Republican governor of South Carolina who believes legal immigrants should be forced to carry documentation of their immigration status at all times; and Artur Davis, a black former congressman who, after realizing that he couldn't get elected in Alabama as a Democrat, made the politically calculated decision to become a Republican and completely reverse his position on voter-ID laws from condemnation to full-throated endorsement.But the GOP's ability to find and give a platform to those few, powerful people of color who willfully ignore their party's attempts to silence their own communities does not invalidate or distract from the blatant discrimination that drives these voter-ID and restricted-voting laws. It simply reinforces the hypocrisy of a party that is busy making a show of its own fair, democratic process in a state where it is working hard to make sure no such thing takes place on Nov. 6.
a few specks of pepper on your eggs does not add flavor. if a waiter brought it to you you would be disgusted that your eggs are without the diversity of season,and getting old and cold, much like the few wannabe's on the right wing token pole days end still that "N" over their. reminiscent of the back in the day "House Negro".
