[...] Suppression of the black vote is thus not only anti-democratic but deeply racist. It arises from a history of violent resistance to the equality of African-Americans in this country, and it thrives on the poverty and vulnerability that continue to plague the black community throughout this nation as a lasting legacy of slavery. It violates rights for which people died in the Civil War, and which are now enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. And it punishes the victims of our racist history for opposing candidates whose agendas may preclude progress in achieving a true and lasting equality.
Perhaps if George W. Bush were as outraged by such practices as he is by a pre-Civil War decision embracing slavery, his party would not need to rely for victory on violating the letter and spirit of the Reconstruction Amendments.
| That's just the last of Sherry F. Colb's FindLaw's Writ article "Racially-Based Suppression of the African-American Vote: The Role It May Play in the Upcoming Presidential Election"
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