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Quote: Holder to Blacks: You're Too Stupid
By Quin Hillyer
The news side of the Washington Times already did a great story on this, and folks like Hans von Spakovsky, Abigail Thernstrom and others have done good commentary on it as well (I'm too short of time to find and provide all the links, for which I apologize, but I'll try to come back later and edit them in), but today we at the Wash Times editorial page explain in no uncertain terms just how morally and legally bankrupt is http://spectator.org/blog/2009/10/27/ho ... re-too-stu HERE IT IS Quote: Justice Department to blacks: We know better
The bureaucracy strikes down nonpartisan elections
Washington Times
Black voters across the land should be offended by the Obama Justice Department. In a decision last month, the department effectively told black voters in the town of Kinston, N.C., that they are too stupid to choose their own elected officials unless the candidates are identified by party label. In doing so, the department overruled Kinston's black voters themselves, who helped vote overwhelmingly to join most other North Carolina towns in holding nonpartisan local elections.
The arrogance of the Justice Department is staggering. Its violation of constitutional norms is astonishing. And its paternalism toward Kinston's blacks is almost antebellum.
The issue at hand was a proposal last November to switch Kinston to a nonpartisan voting system for local elections. About 65 percent of Kinston's 15,000 registered voters are black, meaning that blacks are registered at a higher proportion than their voting-age population of 59 percent. In last November's elections, more than 11,000 of those 15,000 voted, with blacks voting in greater numbers than whites. By a nearly 2 to 1 margin, Kinston voted to eliminate party affiliations from local candidates' names on election ballots. The switch to nonpartisanship won a majority in seven of the city's nine black-majority voting precincts. In sum, nothing could be clearer than that Kinston's black voters themselves want nonpartisan elections.
Yet the Justice Department ruled that nonpartisan elections somehow violate black voting rights because apparently black voters don't know their own minds. The department ruled that unless black and white voters specifically know who the Democrat in any particular race is, the would-be Democrat might not win - and unless the would-be Democrat wins, blacks will be disenfranchised. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/200 ... ow-better/
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Has Obama ever won a free and fair election based on the merits of his ideas?
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