In Jackson, Mississippi there has been an incident where whites right to vote have been violated by the Noxubee County Democratic Party leader Ike Brown. Brown was accused for not leting white residents of the town vote in a public election. With this action in place brown has violated the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Judge Lee, who looked over this case, saw that it was more of a civil matter of Jackson, Mississippi. In the end Judge Lee had decided that it wasn't right for Brown to rule out whites from voting.
I believe that Judge Lee is right for siding with the whites of Jackson, Mississippi because it is not right for Brown to influence other blacks to go aganist the whites. It is like a double negative. They is more piont on doing the same thing that whites had done to the blacks. You are almost going down to the same level.
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yes it is unconstitutional for a mayor to restrict a certain race from voting in a public election.
the judge was right it siding with the whites because their rights were limited and deserved to be allowed to vote.
this is very bad because the mayor restricted a race from voting. He violated their rights and he should be punished i don't think the judge was right with siding with the whites
I feel that Brown is completely wrong in this case. He had no right to deny people voting rights for ANY reason. For such a long time these incidents happened to African Americans and it was finally stopped. To try and start this again is absurd. Everyone has the right to vote and nothing can take that away.
I agree with you. I think that lowering your standards to discriminating against the whites, just as they did is definitely not the way to go about certain things such as this. Two wrongs don't make a right.
I agree because if we do not learn from our history, we can be consumed by the same actions and all of the work that was done to liberate one group will be deminished, and all of the pain would have been for nothing, and we would wind up in the same place.
I don't see how something so blatantly corrupt could happen. Did Brown think he could get away with doing something so stupid? This is clearly a violation of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and i'm glad judge Lee ruled against Brown.
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