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yardwork Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-01-08 03:13 PM
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8. This seems to be much worse than the other issues.
If Clinton's campaign is involved with this group, then they are involved with a systematic effort to deprive African American voters of their vote through intimidation and lies.

There's a long precedent for that in this country, and it's ugly. First African Americans were brought to this country in chains, denied the right to even be considered human. Even after slavery was abolished, African Americans were systematically oppressed, forced into economic servitude that was little better than slavery, and denied constitutional rights. Even after African Americans were give the right to vote - not yet 100 years ago, even - they were denied access to the polls through all kinds of legal and illegal manuevers, from dirty tricks to intimidation to poll taxes to literacy tests and so forth.

Even after the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s did away with the more blatant abuses, many African Americans continued to see their access to voting barred through intimidation, misinformation, and outright theft.

This group, which is active in at least eleven states, is nothing less than an effort to disenfranchise voters. That is totally un-American. It is shocking that Hillary Clinton's campaign has anything to do with the group.

The Clinton campaign has serious explaining to do. This is really bad.
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