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This is the big prize, this could turn Florida in the future.
superpatriotman
(6,232 posts)Just like the rest of the state.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)TomSlick
(11,032 posts)The only real reason for felon disenfranchisement is to keep AA - especially AA males - from voting. If allowing AA men to vote causes the Democrats to win elections, then it is something to tout.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)TomSlick
(11,032 posts)passed during Jim Crow. Arkansas' version is in our post-reconstruction (i.e. Jim Crow) Constitution.
It's an easy game. The southern states disenfranchised felons - small time, non-violent felons - and then ran a judicial system that convicts young AA men of felonies at a rate massively beyond the percentage of the population. The system has been uniquely efficient at keeping AA men from the polls since the end of the Civil War.
A proposal like that passed in Florida will not pass in Arkansas in my lifetime because the majority of White folk in Arkansas don't want more Black folk voting.