Supreme court leaves intact Mississippi law disenfranchising Black voters

Why, this law was specific to Mississippi. AA was applied across the land and backed by the federal government.

 

Affirmative action was implemented on a state-by-state basis. California banned affirmative action in college admissions in 1996. Eight other states followed suit, including Florida in 1999. (Washington reversed their ban last year.)

 

Where did you see me celebrating the affirmative action decision?
I’ll wait.

Sad that the left seems to equate blacks with being felons or unable to get ahead without help.

 

I'll admit my error. I don't see you in there. As for equating "blacks with being felons," I haven't seen anybody on "the left" do that here. Guess you're projecting? The cold hard facts show that Black people are disproportionately stripped of their voting rights in Mississippi. And that has everything to do with a racially discriminatory law, biased policing, and a biased legal system.

 

Of course, but this isn't about justice. It's about procuring votes. Power. They know they're scraping the bottom of the barrel, but if it keeps them in power, there is no shame. They know they're throwing personal choice/responsibility out the window. Doesn't matter one bit to them. It's all about power. And as most felons are typically lower educated, it's low hanging fruit for them. They don't have to work nearly as hard to buy their votes.

So I just laugh when I hear about how unfair this is. That's just a gaslight. They want the power.

 

What law is racially discriminatory, please explain it to us.

 

The law that is the subject of this thread. It has both a discriminatory effect and was an enacted with a racially discriminatory purpose (as the comments in the OP more than prove).

 

This statement makes the point that several of us have been saying. You make the excuse and point the blame at everything but the individual who commits the crime.

If there is no crime committed there is none of this perceived bias you speak of.

 

My statement reflects the reality of this country. You can not like that reality all you want, but that doesn't change it. Odds are you've broken at least one law in the past week. Imagine if the cops watched you like a hawk and tried to screw you over every chance they got.

End of the day, you are defending a racially discriminatory law that strips people of their rights even after they've completed their sentence. Weak.

 

And you disrespect every person who makes the everyday decision not commit felony crimes.

And I have already said in this thread the law should be changed.

 

Yes, it is very disrespectful to the people who don't commit felony crimes to oppose racially discriminatory laws that violate the Constitution. I forgot that people who don't commit felonies love racial discrimination and hate voting rights.

 

I don't think there is anything less American than stripping one's right to vote for any reason.

This thread reminds me of trump saying he could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and maintain support of his base. Here we have proof of the nefarious intent of the law and folks here still saying "if you don't want to lose your vote, don't commit a certain felony". It is as if they take enormous pride out of being manipulated by their politicians.

Whites are 5x more likely to file for bankruptcy than blacks. I wonder how these posters would feel if filers lose their right to vote and white voter suppression was the stated goal of the law? Outrage, I say!

 

Who defines “felony crimes”? There is ample evidence with real data that charging decisions are not equal, sentencing is not equal. If Justice were actually blind, this would not be at issue. Because hard data exists informing us that justice isn’t blind, it becomes an issue.

In this particular case, seems like it should be pretty clear to strike down a law exacted in 1890 with the explicit purpose of being discriminatory. I guess it’s too burdensome to expect Mississippi to write a non-discriminatory law?