They're whistling Dixie again
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| Have they really put Jim Crow behind them? |
Now the segregationists and Dixie T-Party types believe they have enough backing in the Supreme Court to roll back all or many of the gains made during the Civil Right Movement. They're probably right.
Even as a new statue of Rosa Parks is unveiled in the Capitol rotunda in D.C., the foul aroma of Alabama's Jim Crow laws is wafting through the same building. There's a new move afoot to overturn important provisions in the 1965 Voting Rights Bill that forced states like Alabama to end their denial of equal voting rights to African-Americans.
Shelby County, Alabama, is contending that Section 5 of the Voting Rights Bill is unfair to its residents and other jurisdictions that it requires to obtain federal pre-clearance before changing their voting laws.