Tom Tancredo: "Obama won because we didn't have a literacy test"

[Oldandtired]

Referring to the fact that many voted for Obama based strictly on what they heard and not what they knew.

I will admit...it was not the best thing to say....but neither was "negro dialect"....yet I see both as innocent mistakes.

Negro dialect was an innocent mistake to you I am sure...but this thing is a tragedy to you.

This is not about Harry Reid. YOU are deflecting, which is pathetic. Stop being a partisan and just be upfront that he fucked up by saying this.

Oh and by the way? I wouldn't trust Harry Reid to take out my garbage, never mind run the Senate. So again, shows what you know and where I stand on the issues. Which if you're keeping score at home is nothing.

Do you read...or just scan.

I used the Reid example of something that was not an issue that was made to be an issue.
Just as this is an issue that is being made into an issue.
He did not mean it racially...it was a poor choice of words...he should have used history test...he should have realized there are rtacial connotations to literacy tests.
He meant no harm.
Just as Reid meant no harm.

You do not need to agree with me....and I laugh that you insist I say you are right.

Sorry..I see it as another innocent and stiupid poor choice of words.

Our politicians have a habit of doing it.

 

[Political Junky]

Tancredo was asked by Thom Hartmann, on his radio show, to name one thing that republicans had done for people rather than corporations. Tancredo had no answer.

 

[VaYank5150]

Tea Party opening speaker suggests law that kept blacks be kept from voting be reinstated | Raw Story

The opening night speaker at the Tea Party convention suggested a return to a "literacy test" to protect America from presidents like Obama -- a segregation-era method employed by southern US states to keep blacks from voting.

In his speech Thursday to attendees, former Republican congressman Tom Tancredo invoked the loaded pre-civil rights era buzzword, saying that President Barack Obama was elected because "we do not have a civics, literacy test before people can vote in this country."

Southern states used literacy tests as part of an effort to deny suffrage to African American voters prior to Johnson-era civil rights laws.

"Prior to passage of the federal Voting Rights Act in 1965, Southern (and some Western) states maintained elaborate voter registration procedures whose primary purpose was to deny the vote to those who were not white," a website for civil rights veterans explains. "In the South, this process was often called the 'literacy test.' In fact, it was much more than a simple test, it was an entire complex system devoted to denying African-Americans (and in some regions, Latinos) the right to vote."

"Because the Freedom Movement was running "Citizenship Schools" to help people learn how to fill out the forms and pass the test, Alabama changed the test 4 times in less than two years (1964-1965)," the site adds. "At the time of the Selma Voting Rights campaign there were actually 100 different tests in use across the state. In theory, each applicant was supposed to be given one at random from a big loose-leaf binder. In real life, some individual tests were easier than others and the registrar made sure that Black applicants got the hardest ones."

Tancredo called Obama a "committed socialist ideologue," and referred to him by his full name, Barack Hussein Obama.

Why doesn't he just come out and say how he really feels.

And yet people (even people on USMB) still can't comprehend why no one takes these Tea Party loons seriously.....

 

[Charles Stucker]

Of course Obama won because the Voters were stupid.
That is why the Democratic party will never allow any test for stupidity to make one ineligible for voting. It would cost them too dearly.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Tancredo is right again, if the McCain Campaign was literate, they would have realized Obama was a genuine Librul at sometime prior to January 2010, which is when they seem to have finally caught on

 

[bodecea]

Tea Party opening speaker suggests law that kept blacks be kept from voting be reinstated | Raw Story

The opening night speaker at the Tea Party convention suggested a return to a "literacy test" to protect America from presidents like Obama -- a segregation-era method employed by southern US states to keep blacks from voting.

In his speech Thursday to attendees, former Republican congressman Tom Tancredo invoked the loaded pre-civil rights era buzzword, saying that President Barack Obama was elected because "we do not have a civics, literacy test before people can vote in this country."

Southern states used literacy tests as part of an effort to deny suffrage to African American voters prior to Johnson-era civil rights laws.

"Prior to passage of the federal Voting Rights Act in 1965, Southern (and some Western) states maintained elaborate voter registration procedures whose primary purpose was to deny the vote to those who were not white," a website for civil rights veterans explains. "In the South, this process was often called the 'literacy test.' In fact, it was much more than a simple test, it was an entire complex system devoted to denying African-Americans (and in some regions, Latinos) the right to vote."

"Because the Freedom Movement was running "Citizenship Schools" to help people learn how to fill out the forms and pass the test, Alabama changed the test 4 times in less than two years (1964-1965)," the site adds. "At the time of the Selma Voting Rights campaign there were actually 100 different tests in use across the state. In theory, each applicant was supposed to be given one at random from a big loose-leaf binder. In real life, some individual tests were easier than others and the registrar made sure that Black applicants got the hardest ones."

Tancredo called Obama a "committed socialist ideologue," and referred to him by his full name, Barack Hussein Obama.

Why doesn't he just come out and say how he really feels.

And yet people (even people on USMB) still can't comprehend why no one takes these Tea Party loons seriously.....

Not only do I love sharing what Tancredo said...I love sharing the excuses made on this thread by Far Right Kooks.

 

[C-101]

Obama won because of folks like these:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm1KOBMg1Y8]YouTube - How Obama Got Elected... Interviews With Obama Voters[/ame]

 

[uscitizen]

Dogbert is that snake in your avatar gay?

Ekans (Pokémon) - Bulbapedia, the community-driven Pokémon encyclopedia

Cool, thanks, but it is purple you know?

 

[Contessa_Sharra]

You don't know your history.



The entire existence of the Literacy Test and it's usage was to disfranchise black voters. And you seem to think it's a good thing.

I don't know whether he is racist, I know at the very least he's ignorant.

I know how to read...you did not have to post it again.

I made the point that just because that was why they had literacy tests back then does not mean that is the reason why we should have them now.

Grade schools now have literacy tests...is it becuase we do not want African Americans to get an education?

Message Boards should have literacy tests

But then the white trash couldn't come in to PLAY!!!!!

 

[rightwinger]

Tancredo is right again, if the McCain Campaign was literate, they would have realized Obama was a genuine Librul at sometime prior to January 2010, which is when they seem to have finally caught on

Yea...yea McCain sucked....Obama is a socialist

And Tommy Tancredo was laughed out of the primaries

 

[CMike]

I believe he was saying that Obama got elected because of so many illiterate voters.

In other words, voters who understand and can follow the issues wouldn't vote for such a socialist windbag.

 

[CMike]

I wonder how literate these guys are?

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOtGllNk2Gk]YouTube - Obama Black Panthers Intimidate Voters in Philly with clubs![/ame]

 

[CMike]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mvP0ArKIGY]YouTube - Militant BLACK Obama Youth Group: Let's SCARE the SHIT out of WHITE Grandma?[/ame]

 

[CMike]

The Obama supporters.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1988312/posts

The New Black Panthers, who inherited their name from the Black Panther Party of the 1960s, has a page on the Obama campaign’s public forums that says it is backing Obama because he “represents ‘positive change’ for all of America. Obama will stir the ‘Melting Pot’ into a better ‘Molten America,’” the group says.

The NBPP, which has been led since 2001 by Malik Zulu Shabbazz, is identified by the Southern Poverty Law Center, a tolerance education organization, as an extremist hate group. The Anti-Defamation League calls NBPP “the largest organized anti-Semitic black militant group in America. … Under Shabazz, the group continues to organize demonstrations across the country that blend inflammatory bigotry with calls for black empowerment and civil rights.”

The NBPP lists on its Web site a 10-point plan for full employment for black Americans as well as housing, education, free health care and an end to the death penalty.

 

[rightwinger]

Literacy??

Is that how Tommy Tancredo explains that nobody would vote for him in the Republican primaries??

The problem is that people CAN read. Thats why they don't buy the shit that Tancredo shovels.

 

[theHawk]

Of course Tom Tancredo is absolutely right, Obama did get elected because of the ignorant.

Dems in general couldn't win elections without the votes of the uneducated, thats all he is saying. Of course, libs see everything in racial terms so they have to spin it into yet another charge of 'racism'.

 

[Jay Canuck]

Tom Tancredo: "Obama won because we didn't have a literacy test"

I thought this was refering to McCain vetting Palin.

 

[CMike]

Obama couldn't win if not for the uneducated vote. That is true.

What is your point?

 

[rdean]

Only 6% of scientists will admit to being Republican. Only 15% of Republicans say no to teaching Genesis in public schools.

The South, the center of the Confederate Republican Party is close to being the poorest if not the poorest part of the nation. They have the highest dropout rate outside of Alaska. And yet, they talk about "literacy"? Seriously?

Hey, if you "feed 'em, they'll breed".

 

[Charles Stucker]

Only 6% of scientists will admit to being Republican. Only 15% of Republicans say no to teaching Genesis in public schools.

Only 2% of statistics quoted on the internet prove to be true.