I'm sorry, but I'm speechless right now. Not at anything the candidates or the media have done.
You have an Act over there which outlaws discriminatory election practices, so that black people among others can vote without hindrance. Good. Great. Well done America.
And it has to be RENEWED?? It's got a TIME LIMIT on it?? So any time it happens to run out, the government in power can say "oh well, hard luck, them's the breaks" and just NOT BOTHER???
Why the fuchsia isn't it permanent? Who thought this was a good idea?
I am beyond scandalised. I'm also confused as to what Hoojimaflip was doing arguing against its renewal last year when (according to Wikipedia) Bush signed off on a 25-year extension the year before last...but that's nothing next to the revelation that black people still--still--have voting rights in America only on sufferance and with a time limit. I mean, it's obvious from the comments that have emerged in this campaign that the problem the Act was meant to solve has not gone away, and if it hasn't gone by now it never will...
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Date: 2008-09-06 03:58 pm (UTC)I'm sorry, but I'm speechless right now. Not at anything the candidates or the media have done.
You have an Act over there which outlaws discriminatory election practices, so that black people among others can vote without hindrance. Good. Great. Well done America.
And it has to be RENEWED?? It's got a TIME LIMIT on it?? So any time it happens to run out, the government in power can say "oh well, hard luck, them's the breaks" and just NOT BOTHER???
Why the fuchsia isn't it permanent? Who thought this was a good idea?
I am beyond scandalised. I'm also confused as to what Hoojimaflip was doing arguing against its renewal last year when (according to Wikipedia) Bush signed off on a 25-year extension the year before last...but that's nothing next to the revelation that black people still--still--have voting rights in America only on sufferance and with a time limit. I mean, it's obvious from the comments that have emerged in this campaign that the problem the Act was meant to solve has not gone away, and if it hasn't gone by now it never will...
Good gods, that's disillusioning.