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Invoking ‘literacy test,’ Tea Party opening speaker suggests blacks be kept from voting
• Raw StoryIn 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.
1 Comments in Response to Invoking ‘literacy test,’ Tea Party opening speaker suggests blacks be kept from voting
I thought Obama was elected because:
1. She was a shrew!
2. 8 years of Bush.
3. He was acceptable to and chosen by the dial turners.