For many years, when African Americans went to vote there were many ridiculous attempts to prevent them from voting. One of the idiotic questions they were asked was, How many bubbles does a bar of soap produce? These are the types of bullshit obstacles thrown in the way of people of color to prevent them from exercising their right to vote. As you can see below, not much has changed, racial discrimination is alive and well. Poll workers separated all Korean American voters into segregated lines because there were so many, allowing white voters to vote first, and required to go through additional hoops to vote. Unlike other voters, only Korean American voters were directed to stand and verbally state aloud their names, addresses, and cities and states of residence in English, despite providing government issued identification to vote. Elderly Korean American voters with limited English-proficiency were particularly uncomfortable with the discriminatory treatment. aaldef.org/press-releases/press-release/asian-americans-report-voting-barriers-and-discrimination-at-poll-sites-across-usa.html
Posted on: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 02:29:13 +0000
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