Re: [OT] Fahrenheit 9-11 was Re: Mazes and Monsters

Malachias Invictus wrote:
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>>capt_malachias@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>Moore mentioned the myth about black people being turned away from
>>polls.
> 
> 
> Myth?  It was certainly asserted by a significant number of members of 
> Congress.

As well as the voters themselves, who were not notified until they 
showed up to vote and were denied the chance to contest their having 
been dropped.  And Ubi's using a strawman, too, because the bugaboo 
wasn't that this was direct racial vote suppression--it was that the 
legitimate voters who had been cut from the roles were 
dispro****tionately black, having been mixed in with the felons who were 
being cut (and who were dispro****tionately black).