Tag Archives: Jim Crow

Shocker! Minorities Waited Longer to Vote Than Whites

Posted on February 6, 2013 at 8:36 am by Bob Cesca

ThinkProgress: During the November 2012 election, Black and Hispanic voters waited nearly twice as long to vote as whites, according to a Massachusetts Institute of Technology analysis. New York Times graphs summarizing the analysis show that white voters waited an … Continue reading →
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Florida GOP Deliberately Engaged in Voter Suppression

Posted on November 27, 2012 at 9:18 am by Bob Cesca

A former top GOP official in Florida has confirmed our suspicions: Jim Greer, the former head of the Florida Republican Party, recently claimed that a law shortening the early voting period in the state was deliberately designed to suppress voting … Continue reading →

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Tea Party Poll Watchers Targeting African-American Precincts

Posted on November 5, 2012 at 6:09 pm by Bob Cesca

Dan Froomkin reports: Poll watchers from groups ostensibly targeting voter fraud are headed primarily to minority voting precincts on Election Day, lending support to the argument that their real goal is to suppress the African-American and Latino vote. A partial … Continue reading →

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The Voter ID Poll Tax and the Childish Republican Response

Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:33 am by Bob Cesca

My Wednesday column was a follow-up on Voter ID and its roots in the Jim Crow era poll tax: By way of a follow-up to my column yesterday about the Republican effort to disenfranchise millions of poor, elderly and working … Continue reading →

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Another Reason Why Voter ID Sucks

Posted on July 13, 2012 at 9:52 am by Bob Cesca

It’s the New Jim Crow law, and the Republicans are responsible for it. But then there’s this in Mississippi: State officials are running into problems with the new voter-identification law even before the federal government has approved or rejected it. … Continue reading →

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Quote of the Day

Posted on July 11, 2012 at 1:54 pm by Bob Cesca

“Under the proposed law, concealed handgun licenses would be acceptable forms of photo ID, but student IDs would not. Many of those without IDs would have to travel great distances to get them, and some would struggle to pay for … Continue reading →

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Ex-Felons Need a Credit Report to Vote in Iowa

Posted on June 28, 2012 at 1:00 pm by Bob Cesca

I can see how ex-felons might have to jump through a few bureaucratic hoops to regain their voting rights after serving time, but this Iowa law is totally ridiculous. Ex-felons, for example, have to complete a lengthy questionnaire that includes … Continue reading →

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Sometimes, Republicans Tell the Truth

Posted on June 26, 2012 at 11:04 am by Bob Cesca

Of course, it’s often a bit of truth they didn’t really mean to say in public in front of video cameras and microphones. For example, here’s Pennsylvania House Republican Leader Mike Turzai revealing that Voter ID laws are all about … Continue reading →

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The Most Racist Items from the Jim Crow Museum

Posted on April 28, 2012 at 1:35 pm by Bob Cesca

American Exceptionalism and all that. Buzzfeed assembled photos of the most horrendous bits of memorabilia from Ferris State University’s Jim Crow Museum in Big Rapids, MI. While awful, it’s important to remember that this stuff was part of the evolution … Continue reading →

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The Rampage of “Papers Please” Continues

Posted on October 27, 2011 at 7:00 pm by JM Ashby

Farmers have lost millions of dollars of crops, businesses are losing their employees of foreign descent despite their legal status, children are scared to go to school, immigrants cannot sign up to pay for state utilities, and now the libraries … Continue reading →

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