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The literacy rate was the lowest in the nation (75 percent illiterate), as most families could not afford to purchase the textbooks required for their children to attend school. A poll tax kept many poor whites from voting; of the two million residents, only 300,000 could afford to register to vote. In addition, with selective application of literacy tests, blacks had been effectively completely disenfranchised since soon after the state legislature passed the new constitution in 1898. -from the wikipedia article on huey long. As I keep trying to tell people it’s never been about race but about wealth. A black man will oppress another black man for profit A white man will destroy another white man for profit A poor man will kill another poor man for profit A rich man will do whatever it takes to ensure his wealth is not compromised.
Posted on: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 05:40:41 +0000

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