I'm sure most of you have heard of 'The Voters Right Act' that was signed by Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965. If you haven't..it supposedly allows black people the right to vote and was amended again by Ronald Reagan until this year. Supposedly G.W.(George Bush) assured the NAACP that he would sign the act for another 25 years! Am I the only one who doesn't understand how this even came about? All I want to know now is what y'all think regarding this. This is truly unbelievable.
The Lil' Harlemite
4 comments:
Voting Rights Act - does NOT allow Black people to vote.
We have that right as citizens- minus any felony convictions in which
your
rights are stripped- but that aside.
The act helps to prohibit discriminatory practices which can inhibit
voting
- such as literacy tests, etc.
Natasha Y. Stacey-Reid
Okay but wheredoes it say we can't vote without it?
Jamall
It's my understanding that it's not the actual right to vote that is up
for
renewal, but the laws surrounding voting, elections, etc. Below kinda
sums
up what I've read on the subject from different sources.
Many laws governing civil rights must be reauthorized at prescribed
intervals. The point of reauthorization is to make sure the letter of
the
law keeps up with trends in society. Any law left to stand without
changes
could become so out of date that it may lose its effectiveness.
Reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act may change how the law is
enforced, but it will not (and cannot) change the underlying guarantee
of
the right to vote for all American citizens.
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, the Constitution
guarantees
that voting rights of all citizens "are permanent and do not expire."
The
act contains several "extraordinary remedies" that govern several
aspects
of elections that must be reauthorized every few years.
Ratliff, John R. "Let's Take a Vote."
Melanie Foster
That sounds like BS to me. If you are a native or naturalized citizen, your right to vote should be permanent, period. There should be no reauthorization of anything. And what are these "extraordinary remedies"?
Also, When Bill Clinton was in office, he was given legislation that would have allowed him to amend the 25 year "reauthorization" of voting rights under the Civil Rights Act and he passed it over. Just thought I'd throw that out there for all of y'all that love the Clintons and considered Bill "our" president. Not even.
Rasheeda
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