Leave it to those insane right-wing #Republicans in #Texas to celebrate #MartinLutherKing Day and the 50th anniversary of #theVotingRightsAct in the most offensive way possible. The Nonprofit Quarterly reports that five white Republicans from #DallasCounty, TX sued their county for discriminating against white people and violating their voting rights. In what seems an odd way to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day, five white residents of Dallas County, Texas, sued the county for violating the voting rights of white people. The suit was filed on the plaintiffs’ behalf by the Dallas-based #EqualVotingRightsInstitute, charging that, “Like something out of the bad old days, a southern electoral body [is] playing naked racial politics, intentionally using its power to minimize a dissenting race’s political sway.” ...
Posted on: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 04:19:52 +0000
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