My friend Harold Lee Rush posts: *STOP THE VIOLENCE* and *START THE MUSIC* : "ONCE AGAIN to WIN FREEDOM" 4 minutes ago near Chicago, IL · .. Although the 15th and 19th amendments forbid states from simply declaring African-Americans ineligible to vote, they did not protect black voters in practice. Throughout the Jim Crow era, Southern states innovated a menu of presumably race-neutral policies that effectively kept black Americans from voting. Grandfather clauses, poll taxes, literacy tests, all-white primaries, and intimidation at the polls were strategies enforced with state-sanctioned violence to effectively disenfranchise generations of black Americans. It was the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that finally put a stop to these practices. It was Section 5 of that Act that has protected those gains for decades. So here is the really bad news: Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act has been rendered moot, at least for now. Before 10 a.m. on Tuesday, Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 provided that certain states and localities with a particularly egregious history of racial restrictions and racial violence around voting were required to “pre-clear” proposed changes in voting or election procedures through the Department of Justice. The provision covered many, but not all, of the states that had enacted the most vicious Jim Crow practices in the nearly 100 years leading up the the VRA’s passage. Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act determined which areas were covered by Section 5. But on Tuesday, the Supreme Court struck down Section 4, saying that the formula for determining which states had to ask permission to change their voting procedures and practices was unconstitutional. By striking down Section 4, the Court made it impossible to implement Section 5, at least in the short term. The majority opinion described the formula as “obsolete” and seems to argue that states must have a kind of assumed equality as members of our union. WE WILL REMEMBER THE SONGS OF OUR FRIENDS: DEDICATED TO THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO PREFORMED THE SOUND TRACK TO THE LIFE & DREAMS OF MARTIN LUTHER KING AND PROVIDED ALL AMERICA THE "SOULSONG" and "LIFESONG" and the "BACKGROUND" OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT: "2013" THE YEAR OF SMOKEY AND THE MIRACLES, THE SPINNERS, THE MARVELETTES, GLADYS KNIGHT AND THE PIPS, THE FOUR TOPS, MARTHA REEVES AND THE VANDELLAS, JUNIOR WALKER AND THE ALL STARS, THE JACKSON FIVE, THE COMMODORES, THE ISLEY BROTHERS. THE FUNK BROTHERS,THE ANDANTES, THE SUPREMES, STEVIE WONDER, LIONEL RICHIE, DIANA ROSS, MARVIN GAYE AND THE TEMPTATIONS AND THE GREATEST ENTERTAINER OF THE 21ST CENTURY MICHAEL”MJJ” JACKSON. See Linkedin Network: Robert J. Austin U.S.A.(12) for America, The United Support of Artists, Athletes, Actors, Actresses, Authors, Agents, Advertisers, Administrators, Accountants, Arrangers, Attorneys and America for America and World, Urban AID: Hearts AROUND TheWorld "2013" THE YEAR OF THE TEMPTATIONS and THE ANDANTES! *STOP THE VIOLENCE* and *START THE MUSIC* : "ONCE AGAIN to WIN FREEDOM"
Posted on: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 02:49:02 +0000
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