Wow, Fox. You must be really terrified of what would happen if every American had equal access to the voting booth.
in 2015 we have Fox News advocating Jim Crow laws
“Do we really want everybody voting? I don’t think so” WHAT THE FUUUUUUUUUCK FOX NEWS OH MY GOD
Okay, wait but no, let’s talk about this. First of all, this shit is fucking ridiculous. That is my claim, that is what I’m arguing, in case you needed to know. Okay, so let’s jump back 145 years and talk about Reconstruction Era United States (post-Civil War, African Americans have “rights” now). Whites obviously didn’t want blacks to vote (because racism), so they came up with a plan to keep them from voting. Being recently released from slavery, 99.9999% of blacks had no education and no money, so the whites (particularly southern states) passed literacy tests and poll taxes which pretty much meant that to vote, you needed to pass the test and pay the tax. But when they realized there were poor whites with no education, they came out with the Grandfather Clause, which pretty much said that if your grandfather was allowed to vote in the U.S. before the civil war, you don’t have to take the literacy test of pay the poll tax. So ex-slaves got fucked (a trend in those times). That shit was fucking 145 years ago. That’s a long time, that’s some shit like 7 generations that went by. And these cunt bags are here talking as if that was never a thing that happened in history, like if low income members of society who couldn’t afford education should be penalized by not being allowed to vote. Here’s some news for the news, that idea ain’t new, that shit was all sorts of fucked up back then and it’s all sorts of fucked up now. Where’s John Stewart when you need him. Someone needs to tear them apart on the TV. God, fuck these guys.
