Michael Eric Dyson, Maddow Battle Jim DeMint Over Voting Rights: 'Ghosts' Of Racism Alive Today In The South

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On Sunday morning’s Meet the Press, Georgetown University Professor and MSNBC contributor Michael Eric Dyson and former Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) engaged in a scuffle over the Supreme Court’s decision invalidating parts of the Voting Right Act last week. Dyson insisted that the VRA is necessary today because race-based efforts to disenfranchise voters are happening regularly. DeMint countered that notion, saying that the Court did not throw out the VRA but only insisted that the coverage formula be updated. 

Dyson said that Eric Holder’s Department of Justice halted the implementation of a recent Texas redistricting plan and filed suit against South Carolina over their voter ID proposal recently, suggesting that race-based discrimination at the state level in areas covered by Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act is a real problem today.

Dyson added that, in 2006, a Republican Congress and president reauthorized the VRA in its entity.

“The courts didn’t throw out the Voting Rights Act,” DeMint countered, “just one section that used 50-year-old voting participation records.”

didn't he say that already?  if you have a problem with Dr. Dysons point just watch what happens if they are not stopped, republicans win by 300 million in each redstate, problem is it's only one 300 million of us.

He added that the Court’s majority opinion cited voting participation rates today that are higher in some areas of the South than they are for whites. “It was a good judgment and it’s not going to hinder voting right in a way,” DeMint declared

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow challenged DeMint, saying that what Congress reauthorized in 2006 included new voter participation data. DeMint replied that he had little choice but to support the rest of Congress’s desire to reauthorize the act or demand that the whole act be thrown out.

“I can’t even get a credit card without three credit bureaus telling me I’m good enough,” Dyson said. He noted that only one branch of government, by way of analogy, has said that the VRA’s formula is no longer relevant.

it's ashamed that those millions he talked about are not able or do not want to acknowledge the facts they put some guy on to same "no it's not}" and alls well in mudville.  we can only blame the politicians after we first blame those who have had ample proof of the right wing skulduggery even when it hurts them too, still vote and cheer for the shafting that's coming.