US Supreme Court guts the Voting Rights Act

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/06/26/vote-j26.html



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My impression is that anti-Semitism in France is no longer as respectable or fashionable as in the past. But open animosity toward North Africans and Blacks is more common. Nothing like the Dreyfus Affair is likely in contemporary France, unless the modern day Dreyfus were a North African. But no, I don't get the impression that antisemitism is gone. In fact, I seem to recall reading that former National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen got in trouble for disseminating Nazi songs and denying the Holocuast happened. But more hostile attention now is directed against citizens and immigrants of color. From what I reas more virulent strains of antisemitism are still be be found, and especially in Eastern Europe. You'll more likely to find this anti-Jewish animosity today in Poland than in France or England

-Savant

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Given Nkurmah's numerous writings from an unmistakably Marxist standpoint, asking to "prove" that he is a Marxist is like asking me to "prove" Augustine was Christian or that the pope is Catholic. If you need proof after READING Nkrumah, you either are too dumb to grasp the obvious or in need of SERIOUS remediable education. As for Negritude being a distration, again it began to wither--fortunatel y!---as REAL POLITICAL STRUGGLES gained steam. When a cultural movement outlives its creative moment, it is time to move on. Fanon, and other revolutionaries in the French colonies moved on. I do not deny it had some value as far as AWAKENING the intellectuals of the colonized territories. Anyone who has read Amilcar Cabral's RETURN TO THE SOURCE, knows their were similar cultural movement in Portuguese colonies. OK, for awhile in waking up mentally colonizied intellectuals. But it's a different matter once conscientized revolutionary nationalist intellectuals joined with the masses in the struggle for liberation. It's a no brainer for people who've read Cabral, Fanon or Toure

-Savant

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He'd be well pleased at the gutting of the Voting Rights Act. Disfranchisement would be deemed by Hitler as most appropriate for dealing with so-called "inferior" races like Blacks, Jews, Slavs, East Indians, etc. But for him that would be only the first step.
We all know what additional steps he's propose.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Birmingham Campaign and the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
The Supreme Court has just GUTTED the Voting Rights Act! What's next? the Civil Rights bill?

-Savant

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A nonsensical reply to a nonsensical post by a nonsensical person.

What are we going to do about the gutting of our RIGHTS? What did so many people go to jail and die for?
This month in 1964, James Cheney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner were MURDERED in Mississippi trying to win our people's right to the ballot. In 1965, after the bloody Selma, AL. struggle, we won that right in the form of the VOTING RIGHTS ACT of 1965.
Yesterday, the Supreme Court GUTTED the Voting Rights Act.

Why are we discussiong and fussing over nonsense?

-Savant

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