Biden says parts of US are 'backsliding into the days of Jim Crow'

[Rogue Valley]

Biden says parts of US are 'backsliding into the days of Jim Crow'

President Joe Biden said Wednesday that parts of the United States are "backsliding into the days of Jim Crow" by passing laws he says are reminiscent of when Black Americans had to pay poll taxes and pass other tests before casting their vote.

www.cnn.com

4/14/21
President Joe Biden said Wednesday that parts of the United States are "backsliding into the days of Jim Crow" by passing laws he says are reminiscent of when Black Americans had to pay poll taxes and pass other tests before casting their vote. "The cry for justice 400 years in the making is ringing out across our nation," Biden said as he addressed a virtual conference hosted by the National Action Network, a nonprofit civil rights organization founded by civil rights activist the Rev. Al Sharpton. The President said: "Parts of our country are backsliding into the days of Jim Crow, passing laws that harken back to the era of poll taxes -- when Black people were made to guess how many beans, how many jelly beans, in a jar or count the number of bubbles in a bar of soap before they could cast their ballot." Last month, Biden called a sweeping Georgia elections bill that imposes new voting restrictions "Jim Crow in the 21st Century" and "an atrocity." He noted at the time the restrictions disproportionately target Black voters, who were crucial to the recent Democratic victories in Georgia. Georgia's new law imposes new voter identification requirements for absentee ballots, limits the use of ballot drop boxes, makes it a crime for anyone other than poll workers to approach voters in line to give them food and water and gives state officials more power over local elections.

Instigating a vote-certification riot at the Capitol on January 6 failed to change the 2020 election results, so Republicans are trying a different approach ... limit voting by people of color in the 2022/2026 elections.

 

[ataraxia]

They are losing their cool and subtlety. Their attempts are looking ever more desperate and shrill. But I suspect they are going to lose anyway. History is not on their side. As MLK said, "the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”

 

[Phys251]

Biden says parts of US are 'backsliding into the days of Jim Crow'

President Joe Biden said Wednesday that parts of the United States are "backsliding into the days of Jim Crow" by passing laws he says are reminiscent of when Black Americans had to pay poll taxes and pass other tests before casting their vote.

www.cnn.com

Instigating a vote-certification riot at the Capitol on January 6 failed to change the 2020 election results, so Republicans are trying a different approach ... limit voting by people of color in the 2022/2026 elections.

The 15th Amendment makes it very clear that suppressing the minority vote is unconstitutional. But I do not trust those activist judges on SCOTUS to defend that.

 

[Roadvirus]

Why is Biden still lying?