Thurgood Marshall Institute heeft geretweet Legal Defense Fund
Suppressing the right to vote of those who have already paid their debt to society is one of the oldest vestiges of our Jim Crow past. These odious tactics “were a particularly potent tool in the campaign to undercut African-American political power.” https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/19/opinion/the-racist-origins-of-felon-disenfranchisement.html …https://twitter.com/NAACP_LDF/status/1055539561860919296 …
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The goal of Florida’s felon disenfranchisement system is clear: It is a new form of an old tactic — keeping certain people from voting, That clearly has a racial impact. Maybe you don’t have a poll tax, but you try something new. #Amendment4 #FLGov https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/20181025/florida-felon-voting-rights-who-got-theirs-back-under-scott …
07:29 - 26 okt. 2018
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