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

>But I believe that now that we have public education available to everyone we should have some basic literacy and civic tests for people to vote.

These would still be considered racist for the same reason a test like the one in the article would be.

And this is completely stupid and ironically, racist as fuck and incredibly condescendent. That kind of attitude is what turned me from a former left activist into the realist I am today. Deep inside their hearts the left tends to think people from my race and former class are actually inferior and need their enlightened help.