{"id":5854,"date":"2013-07-09T11:32:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T16:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=5854"},"modified":"2013-07-09T11:32:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T16:32:00","slug":"no-the-voting-rights-act-was-not-struck-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=5854","title":{"rendered":"No, The Voting Rights Act Was Not Struck Down"},"content":{"rendered":"

A portion of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was struck down by the Supreme Court. The Act itself wasn\u2019t chucked<\/a>, just the way that it was determining which states came under it. The era of poll taxes and literacy tests are gone, and the disparity between whites and blacks regarding voter participation have been erased. The state with the largest gap between white and black voter turnout these days is Massachusetts, for cryin\u2019 out loud. And in Mississippi in the 21st<\/sup> century, black turnout exceeds white turnout. But the VRA was still punishing the South for race disparities in voting that have long been remedied.<\/p>\n

So then, is 50-year-old data better than current information when trying to determine who should come under the Voting Rights Act? Have we learned nothing<\/i> from the mistakes of the past? The four liberal Supreme Court justices, Attorney General Eric Holder, and President Obama would answer No to both those questions, at least based on the outrage they feigned over the ruling. They can\u2019t seem to bring themselves to believe that progress has actually occurred. Or they\u2019re pandering to their base. Either way, to call requiring these stats to be updated \u201cturning back the clock\u201d is cognitive dissonance of the highest order. The request is that the clock be turned forward, and Democrats are against it.<\/a> Or they are pretending to be against it, and hoping that their base isn\u2019t paying attention.<\/p>\n

If you are a Democrat, and you\u2019ve wondered why Republicans are often wary of laws that try to remedy sins of the past, this is exhibit A. Here is a law trying to do such a thing, but it\u2019s stuck in the culture and racism of the 1960s<\/a>, and any attempt to acknowledge repentance from those sins is taken, by liberals, to be just as bad. And if you want to take politically corrective legislation like the Voting Rights Act and update it for today\u2019s reality, you must be racist.<\/p>\n

Ronald Reagan quipped that government programs are the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth. But the Supreme Court didn\u2019t do away with the VRA, it just said that it should be relevant. Those politicos that spoke out against this eminently reasonable decision are, in my mind, just as irrelevant as 50-year-old statistics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A portion of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was struck down by the Supreme Court. The Act itself wasn\u2019t chucked, just the way that it was determining which states came under it. The era of poll taxes and literacy tests are gone, and the disparity between whites and blacks regarding voter participation have been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,9,20,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-doug","category-judiciary","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}