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“Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African American boy, was murdered in August 1955 in a racist attack that shocked the nation and provided a catalyst for the emerging civil rights movement. A Chicago native, Till was visiting relatives in Money, Mississippi, when he was accused of harassing a local white woman. Several days later, relatives of the woman abducted Till, brutally beating and killing him before disposing of his body in a nearby river. Till’s devastated mother insisted on a public, open-casket funeral for her son to shed light on the violence inflicted on blacks in the South. Till’s murderers were acquitted, but his death galvanized civil rights activists nationwide,” History.com explained.
The horrific tragedy of Emmett Till and many others is evidence of the blood that was shed to pay for the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965. The price cannot be forgotten as H.R. 1 is debated on the floors of the United States Congress. Who is paying the price for this takeover by the Left?
Notwithstanding the many attempts to overcome the United States Constitution in this bill (of which there are many), the Act passes out voting rights like cheap candy.
The Act literally removes all requirements for voting, like the requirement to be and to prove citizenship. No voter ID is required, and everyone gets a ballot mailed, no matter what. This undermines many states’ voter ID laws, which were enacted to combat impersonation fraud, voter registration fraud, duplicate voting, and voting by ineligible individuals, such as illegal aliens (Source: starting on page 43, line 21).
States will be required to automatically add to voter registration rolls every person—regardless of voter eligibility—who partakes in certain government programs, such as receiving welfare or obtaining a driver’s license. Other provisions of the Act then restrict the ability of states to verify eligible voters and remove ineligible voters from voter registration rolls. This provision will automatically enroll ineligible voters such as illegal aliens, says the Heritage Foundation (Source: starting on page 47, line 15). It is worth noting that under the Act a 16-year-old and a felon released from prison are also afforded voting rights.
We must honor the sacrifices of those who climbed out from under the ashes of Jim Crow and fought to be recognized as full citizens of this nation; we must not allow the privileges earned from those battles to be diminished by the Left’s insatiable appetite to rig elections for power. We must reject H.R. 1 on behalf of those who bled and died for civil rights in this country, including for the right to vote. (Where is the Congressional Black Caucus while Congress plots to rig elections by giving away voting rights we all fought for?)
Marc T. Little is the Executive Director of CURE America Action, Inc., a 501 (c)(4), headquartered in Washington, DC, advocating messages of Christianity, Capitalism, and the Constitution across the nation. Little is a pastor, attorney, and political strategist.
Lest we forget that Jim Crow laws were instituted and supported by none other than the democrat party – the party of slavery and segregation.
That’s very true. Is it fair to suggest that the KKK had its share of White Republicans?
Hard to say, since people kept their membership secret – but there sure weren’t many white Republicans in the south after the Civil War! Most southern states were solidly Democrat – and kept black people from voting partly because they knew they would vote Republican. They even refused to celebrate Lincoln’s birthday until we were well into the 20th century.
And BLM, (Black version of the KKK), has a Huge percentage of white Democrats!
There’s truth to that. In South LA, only White people seen daily usually police and firefighters/paramedics. Some teachers also. That was until some BLM protests. Folks asked at the time: “Who the hell are these people.? Why are they here?”