Voting Rights Day of Note: On this Date in 1965 LBJ signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 outlawing the discriminatory practices that led to the widespread disenfranchisement of African Americans. [ Sarah Vowell] said [that States rights] seemed like a good idea on paper, but too often were used as code for we dont like black people and we want to stop them from voting. (excerpt) — John Nova Lomax / Houston Presss piece on Sarahs appearance in Beaumont, Texas for the Houston Press We urge that the Voter Rights Act of 1965 codified and updated in 1973 be repealed and not reauthorized. (excerpt) —2014 Platform of the Republican Party of Texas: bit.ly/2014TXGOP “Our country has changed,” Chief Justice John Roberts, said, a sentiment echoed by Justice Thomas. They could not mean that race is no longer an issue. The Times reported that one place eagerly awaiting the Court’s ruling was Beaumont, Texas, where the Justice Department has blocked several attempts by a group of white citizens to change voting regulations for the explicit purpose of unseating a black-majority school board. What’s so changed about that? (excerpt) —Louis Menand for The New Yorker: nyr.kr/1tWMv4y
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