Texas Democrats Strike Jim Crow 'Purity of Ballot Box' Language from GOP Voting Bill
Texas House removed language about the "purity of the ballot box" from a voting bill after a Democrat pointed out the phrase's racist roots.www.rollingstone.com
"In Texas, conservatives have been pushing a voting bill that included language from the state’s constitution that was used to justify disenfranchising the state’s Black voters, until a Democrat pointed out the wording’s racist roots, and the language was removed. “What was your motivation for using that term ‘purity at the ballot box’?” Democratic Rep. Rafael Anchía asked the bill’s sponsor and author, Republican Rep. Briscoe Cain, adding, “Did you look at the history before using that word?”
“No, no… I’m not familiar with… Article 6,” Cain said. “Well, you may have missed it then,” Anchía responded. “And this would have been very obvious, I think, to anybody who looked at that language. That provision was drafted specifically to disenfranchise black people, black voters, following the Civil War. Did you know that?” Anchía went on to ask Cain whether he realized that the language ‘purity at the ballot box ‘ … gave rise to all-white primaries” and was “used during the Jim Crow era to prevent black people from voting.” Cain said he did not know the history but that he found it “troubling.”
This is the problem with these uppity communists and their 1619-critical race theory crap.....Who cares if the term "purity of the ballot" or "voter integrity" were phrases that were cooked up by white supremacists over 150 yrs ago to outlaw darkies from voting...those were all things invented by Southern democrats; who cares if it a lot of the same arguments being made today by conservatives were being made by those same Democrats back then....that's just a coincidence.....
These commie woke-critical race theory cultural marxist communists are continuously trying to bring up the past to add context to current legislation and that isn't fair.
It's a shame you trump Nazis are such dumb fvcks.
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