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A near impossible literacy test Louisiana used to suppress the black vote

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243 points rcarmo | 2 comments | 21 Oct 24 21:29 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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purpleblue ◴[21 Oct 24 23:27 UTC] No.41909618[source]▶
The sheer unadulterated racism from the past is horrifying and sickening. Sure, we still have work to do, but I'm glad we've come so far in the last few decades.
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Spooky23 ◴[22 Oct 24 04:02 UTC] No.41911077[source]▶
It’s still here. We dress it up as voter ID or something similar.
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anonfordays ◴[22 Oct 24 05:28 UTC] No.41911460[source]▶
Voter ID is not racist.
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1. defrost ◴[22 Oct 24 05:36 UTC] No.41911488{3}[source]▶
Like many such policies it's not explicitly racist .. as a procedure it simply disenfranchises some demographics more than others; lower income brackets, people that have had difficult housing and record keepng pasts, indigenous voters on reservation lands lacking mailbox addresses, etc.

It's a mystery how that appears to proportionally exclude along racial and ethnic lines but it's assuredly not that by delibrate intent.

Just a happy accident really?

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2. giraffe_lady ◴[22 Oct 24 16:02 UTC] No.41915662[source]▶
A fun fact is that this is specifically the question the academic framework of critical race theory was formed to address. How can systems that are not explicitly racist, that may actually have racial equity as explicit goals, still create racially disparate outcomes. It's an interesting area of study! No wonder people hate it.