History always repeats, and here in America we are set to prove this fact once again. Remember, several years ago in South Africa, the extreme measures taken by the white ruling class to remain in power? Do you recall those long rigid whips wielded by white police to beat back black protesters? Remember apartheid ? I'm sure you remember the 1960's Civil Rights clashes. The beatings, the killings, the cowardly church bombings, the high pressure hoses, the attack dogs, all used to deny the right to vote to a minority. It's 2013 and here we go again. As soon as the conservative controlled Supreme Court negated part of the 1965 Voting Rights Act Republican controlled state legislatures passed restrictive voter I.D. laws under the guise of stopping non existent voter fraud. All these laws are for is to repress the minority vote and to keep right wing white males in power.This is the last dying gasp of the soon to be new minority. If beatings and attack dogs didn't work in the past why would stale attempts at misdirection in voter I.D. laws work now?
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