Many continue to be shocked, surprised, and puzzled over Congress’s foot drag over renewing the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
The assumption was that Congress would quickly renew it and that President Bush, as promised, would just as quickly sign the renewal.
In the weeks before House Republicans dashed that hope, Senate and House Republicans publicly gushed over the act and practically consecrated Act as an untouchable civil rights icon.
Renewal was thought to be such a lock that a mysterious email that was circulated a couple of years ago that claimed that Congress would torpedo the Voting Rights Act and that blacks would be again summarily kicked out the Voting booth was branded race paranoia run amok and laughed away.
The warning that blacks would be stripped of the vote deserves laughter. The warning that the Voting Rights might be in trouble is no laughing matter...." (READ MORE)