Black Students denied voting rights in Texas

[damnyankee2601]

A little background: Prairie View A&M is an historically black college created by Jim Crow to keep the darkies out of the "real" A&M. Not coincidentally, Texas A&M has recently come under fire for using legacy admissions to circumvent racial preference restrictions. Also, Prairie view is such a huge Afro-American population block that Tom DeLay couldn't gerrymander it out in his recent district remap, so I guess this is the next best thing.


Prairie View students denied voting rights in Waller County
06:36 PM CST on Saturday, January 10, 2004
From 11 News Staff Reports
Some students at Texas A&M Prairie View still don’t know if they’ll be allowed to vote in Waller County. County D.A. Oliver Kitzman says they may not meet residency requirements. Now members of the state legislature and U.S. Congress are getting involved. Today four lawmakers announced a march on the Prairie View campus for January 15th. They say students have the right to vote in any county they’ve lived in for the last 30 days. Kitzman believes they must intend on making it their permanent residence.
link: http://www.khou.com/topstories/stories/khou040110_gj_pviewam.286000d.html

Question for the incompetent reporter: What is the policy in Austin and College Station?

[Freddie Stubbs]

1. Could you please try not to use racially insensative terms?

"Darkies" not a very nice term to use when referring to us African Americans.

[tom_paine]

4. Freddie, I think he was being sarcastic

I just used the term "Uppity Negroes" in the same way.

If I offended you, I apologize.

But one thing is clear...because the Busheviks so resembled the Nazis in propaganda and political strategizing (updated for 60 years of progress in psychomanipulation, advertising, and marketing), that the one thing they dare not show...the ONLY thing besides direct and brutal violence that actually differentiates them from the Nazis...is not showing their overt racism.

Sure, they'll pursue, "kinder and gentler" Jim Crow like mentioned in the article above, but it would be bad news for them to turn firehoses on African-Americans (though I am sure many Busheviks, particularly the Brownshirt/Freeper/Dittohead footsoldiers who don't have to hide themselves, would like to do much more than that).

Which is why, IMHO, the MLK protestors didn't get the Miami treatemnt.

[tom_paine]

2. Jim Crow is making a BIG comeback in Imperial Amerika

Especially Cyber Jim Crow and especially as it pertains to those Uppity Negroes getting to vote.

The whole thing is disgusting and obvious. Not that it matters because Corporate TV Pravda would never dare breach the New Politikal Korrektness and risk a weeklong blast from the Mighty Wurlitzer of the Party-Loyal Right-Wing Sub-Media by showing this on more than a local level.

I still remember when America was free. I will not forget.

It's easy right now because the Busheviks have yet to finish consolidating their unchecked hegemonic power at the top.

When they are finished Free America, the Old American Republic, will indeed become a distant memory as well as a daily trumpeted lie by the Empire in order to cobvince the Imperila Subjects that they are still free.

[SlavesandBulldozers]

3. uhh

I think he was making a point by saying "darkies" by prefacing the statement with Jim Crow.

[NoPasaran]

5. Kitzman is full of it

From the Texas Secretary of State Website:

If you attend college away from home and are registered to vote at your parents’ address, you have several voting options. You may register to vote at your new college residence or keep your voter registration current at your parents’ address. You decide where you reside for voting purposes, but you cannot register in both locations. If you keep your voter registration at your parents’ address and will not be home during the early voting period or on Election Day, you can request that a ballot by mail be sent to you at your college address.

http://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/voter/index.shtml

[Gulf Coast J]

9. Thanks for the link

I had no problem registering when I lived in the dorms. The College Republicans, College Democrats, Libertarians, Greens and everyone else encouraged students to register locally. I can't believe this a-hole DA in Waller County is doing this.

[Bandit]

6. I'm sure the law is quite plain ~ thirty days residency

It says nowhere that they must make it their permenent home. Grasping at straws. Why not just say they need to pass a literacy test and be done with it. The law says anyone can vote anyplace at any time with a questioned ballot. They can not be refused a ballot period.

[jburton]

7. WTF??

I always registered to vote at college. (A&M College Station)

I mean, I lived there most of the year (two full semesters), payed rent there, bought food there, paid enormous sums in textbooks at local stores there, why the hell wouldn't I vote there?

Registering/voting problems were NEVER an issue. Of course, the student body at College Station is 90% white, at Prarie View the opposite.

Gee, you don't think THAT could have anything to do with it, so you?

[noonwitch]

8. When I was in college, I was registered to vote at my parents' address

So I got an absentee ballot. There was one really good reason for this-my car was also registered at that address, because insurance rates are usually higher in college towns/campus area zip codes of larger cities.

[BevHarris]

10. Same ol' same ol'

Check this: http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-1.pdf

Happened in 1910, happened in 1964, happening in 2004.

Vote suppression. And if you think this is bad, just wait until we go to the new HAVA-mandated statewide computerized voter registration program. How many black voters will have their registrations lost or purged then, do you think? (Heck, register whole cemeteries. Better yet, get rid of that old-fashioned paper sign-in, use your smart card. Voters registered by secret computer program, sign-in tallies computed on secret programs, votes registered on secret programs.

Two companies that make all the components for the above: Diebold and ES&S.

Bev Harris