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It has come to this. From the GOP-Mouthpiece-Fox-News hatemonger Glenn Beck to the vicious xenophobe (former GOP Congressman) Tom Tancredo , the language is clear. Their mission is to denigrate the "literacy" of some Americans, including our president. To the cheering of Teabagger attendees at Opryland, Tancredo called for the return of literacy tests, but not for the likes of him. You don't even have to read between the lines to realize that he (and the others using these words) mean one thing: Minority literacy tests, literacy tests which almost no one would pass issued selectively to those whom registrars do not want to vote. Unfortunately, we have been down this road before. |
| The suggestion that Obama voters aren't literate is a direct affront to all Obama voters. But most of all, it implicitly affronts minorities, who voted in greater percentages for Obama than did Caucasians. The teabaggers seem clueless that more Caucasians voted for Obama than African Americans, but never mind. Yet the tinfoil hatters couldn't pass the very same literacy tests once foisted upon African Americans in the US. Like Sarah Palin, they glorify stupid. Very few Americans could pass, because by design, they are vote-stoppers.
Meanwhile, Sarah Palin jeeringly mocks brilliant President Obama for using a teleprompter (which all presidents and national pols have used for decades), and then mocks him for being a Constitutional scholar. And yet she can't remember three (obvious, tired and shopworn) talking points, scribbled on her hand as a pathetic cheat sheet. She couldn't pass such a "literacy" test herself. But of course, in the Tancredo vision, she wouldn't be taking one.
When you hear those who oppose the extension of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, remember who they are. Tell everyone you know. Do not let these subverters of the equality go without recriminations at the polls. Call them out for what they are. Challenge anyone you know who parrots Tancredo's hateful words.
If you haven't done so, I urge you to view the Rachel Maddow segment on this subject included above. She includes some sample questions which were used to keep African Americans from voting as recently as 1965, in the United States of America. That increasingly members of a national party talk like this, is a national disgrace.
Sarah Palin fashions herself a would-be presidential nominee. Her attendance in Opryland; her embrace of not just a similar tone as Tancredo's, but similar contempt for Obama; her ignorance of the facts and her contortions about the Consitution should strike fear into the hearts of anyone who foolishly believes that things could not be worse. They can be, much worse. We see now the depths to which the opposition party is apparently willing to go. And Sarah Palin is right down in the gutter with them. |
