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

Developers are so used to going through leetcode nonsense to get jobs that they're assuming that this is some kind of genuine but poorly written test to test literacy.

The way something like this was administered, was that tests returned by white people were given a cursory glance and accepted, and tests returned by black people were just rejected and given some random explanation as to why they were wrong, and then the test was chucked in the garbage. Nobody cared what the right answer was, all that mattered was there was some fig leaf explanation for why black voters couldn't vote. Mostly black voters stopped bothering to try after a couple of go arounds here -- not to mention the physical intimidation that went along with it. The point was to inculcate learned helplessness.

This wasn't the SAT, y'all.