Comments on: Thy GOP Again Has its Sights on the Voting Rights Act.

By: Victor

Victor — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 21:20:47 +0000

@Nicholas and Scotty
I am in the South. I am 63. I haven’t missed an election anywhere I have lived since I was 21. Yeah, then we had to be 21. I moved to NY at 18. I did my best to educate myself to be as informed as I could become by the time I received the franchise to vote. Yet, I do not think we need to chide any rights (gay or otherwise) to promote voter rights. Some esteem property rights over civil right. Wrong. Civil rights over property rights. Wrong. Individual rights. Right! Equal protection. Right! We must multitask. We must do our collective and individual best to keep progressing to realize the ideal. Thank you for this timely article!

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:25:06 +0000

Thanks Scotty, our plight would be so much better if others would heed your well thought out comment on the state of the black community’s voting habits.
I might add that, this upcoming election is extra important because the next president will appoint at least 2 Supreme Court Justices and a progressive Congress is essential to make that work.

By: Scotty

Scotty — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:31:49 +0000

My opinion is that if the Black voting bloc would stop taking elections off (Mid-Terms) we would not be having many of these conversations or facing many of threats. Because the majority of Black people only turn out every four years to elect a President, we end up paying the price with the election of far,far right wing extremist from the Republican party. The Tea People told you what there were going to do come midterms and apparently no-one in the Black community took them serious. Not only did these people take over the House but nearly took over the Senate and captured the legislatures and Governor mansion in many states. This is what you get when you do not take your right to vote seriously and exercise it at every opportunity. Of course there will be a huge turnout of Black folks again in 2012 and Obama will be re-elected but come 2014, we will be right back in the same situation. Too bad Mr. Obama did not move on making sections of Voting Rights Act permanent when he had an opportunity but hey, Gay Rights are more important than our civil rights.