“SELMA” is the story of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s historic struggle to secure voting rights for Africans in American affairs..
They were illegally given voting rights against the wishes of the founding fathers. White countries should be run for the benefit of Whites, and no politician should be pandering to the interests of non-Whites.
If Blacks (and other non-Whites) want to vote, they can move to their own countries, which are run for their people's benefit.
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You are aware that the Bill of Rights, which protects you from being arrested for being an asshole in public, was not actually part of the original Constitution? That it took a very long, difficult political fight to ratify it? That a number of politicians recognized that, without changes to the Constitution in the form of a Bill of Rights, this country was in danger of becoming just another banana republic?
You are a moron. Russia is looking for knuckle draggers like you.
Actually, the removal of their voting rights was illegal. Amendment XV legally gave them the right to vote, but the South used voter suppression and things like the poll tax to keep them from voting, extralegally I might add.
In fact, the photo ID laws essentially impose a greater financial burden than the poll taxes of old. Things like that are what keep Oklahoma the NSGOP "utopia" it is instead of the moderately conservative Democratic government its voter base would lead you to believe it to be.
As a woman, I've never cared much what the founding fathers wanted. Sure, they were fine products of the Enlightenment, but they neglected to include half the human species in their deliberations.
>illegally given voting rights
Shall I review the 15th amendment? Including the congressional power to enforce it? Or are you arguing the amendment itself was illegal, in which case... the south seceded and was under occupation, they don't get to veto laws for a union they tried to quit.
>against the wishes of the founding fathers
Undoubtedly, many of the founding fathers would have voted against such legislation. But not all!
Racial restrictions on suffrage did not exist in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, and New Jersey at the time of the Articles of Confederation, and North Carolina allowed free blacks to vote on equal terms to whites. (Slaves couldn't vote in any of the northern states either, but slavery itself was on the way out there - Massachusetts abolished before the constitution was ratified.)
The founders included an amendment process in the constitution for a reason.
You mean the country the blacks were taken away from by force? In order to become slaves to whites?
If you want to deport them, fine, but you're paying for the 1st class cruise ship to take them there.
"If Blacks (and other non-Whites) want to vote, they can move to their own countries, which are run for their people's benefit. "
this kind of logic kinda defeats your point, because depending on your definition of "their own country" it either means
a) the Unted States of America is the own Country of the African Americans, since their ancestors lived there for centurys, and therefore african americans should be allowed to vote in US-elections
or
b) the United states of America belong to the Amerindians, no white americans are allowed to vote in US-elections, andinsted have to move to whatever european nations their ancestors came from.
And I'm pretty sure neither of these is what you want to say.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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