GOP plans will disqualify blacks from voting

“The chairman of the Republican Party in Macomb County Michigan, a key swing county in a key swing state, is planning to use a list of foreclosed homes to block people from voting in the upcoming election as part of the state GOP’s effort to challenge some voters on Election Day,” according to a recent report in The Michigan Messenger.

The chairman, it seems, knows his racial history, and against this backdrop, he and the party plan to use the knowledge to revive Jim Crow. In the 1890’s many southern states employed an institutional approach to black voter disenfranchisement. Among the most popular tools were: the grandfather clause, which made clear that the right to vote did not apply to blacks because in order to have this right one must have been a citizen or a descendant of a citizen who had the right to vote prior to 1866 or 1867.

Christopher J. Metzler, The Daily Voice

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