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

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243 points rcarmo | 1 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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1. consteval ◴[22 Oct 24 13:31 UTC] No.41914076[source]▶
From a statistical standpoint, there are proportionally less black people with ID than other racial groups.

It's not a matter of capability, it's purely a factual matter. It's not up for debate black Americans would be disproportionality affected, and as such you can easily argue the policy has racist intentions. What some black Americans say, and what some politicians say, does not matter.