Right-Winger DEVON STACK is a mad man, defends "literacy tests," certain forms of vigilante justice

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It was a poor attempt to keep Blacks from voting in southern elections. The south should have taken a direct stand against the 15th amendment as a form of legalized voter disenfranchisement. It could have sprouted another civil war but it would continue to undermine the legitimacy of the union.

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I do not understand why a legitimate literacy test does not suffice. It weeds out people who should not be votin, which would be quite disproportionately black, perhaps overwhelmingly so. And it withstand scrutiny from outside interlopers. I do think much of the test is fairly unaligned and I think the error in part 30 may have risen from reproduction.

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I do not understand why a legitimate literacy test does not suffice.

How does this test get past disparate impact laws in the United States? All the courts would need is to do is collect the racial demographics of people that passed the test and failed the test. Upon the realization that less Blacks passed the test than Whites, they would rule in favor of banning literacy tests. There is no way to game the civil rights movement using their premises, Whites will always lose every time by attempting to push meritocratic barriers to exclude other racial groups. The courts can also create new legal precedence from the ether and reinterpret laws to suit their current political activist ends.

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Disparate impact test was later. Washington v Davis. Perhaps abiding by fair play would have slowed the progress of the so-called civil rights movement.