Donald is using Jim Crow on white Americans too, women, young people and even the elderly, all perceived enemies get suppressed and disenfranchised. His supporters are OK with this lying, cheating and stealing, many participate. Elections are about fairness and good will on all sides participating, if you don't want to follow the agreed upon rules, don't participate or go to prison, for a mandatory minimum too.
Racist politicians and judges used everything from poll taxes to literacy tests to prevent African Americans from voting in the Jim Crow era. Some say Republicans are using similar tactics today.
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Four ways 'Jim Crow 2.0' is shaping this presidential election
(CNN)On the first and third Monday of each month, Theresa Burroughs traveled to Alabama's Hale County courthouse to register to vote. On each trip, she was met by a group of White men playing dominoes.
One of those men oversaw voter registration in the county. He'd point to a jar of jelly beans on a nearby table and ask Burroughs, "How many black jelly beans are in a jar? How many red ones in there?"
It was the late 1940s, and Burroughs was a Black woman who knew she wasn't welcome at a voting booth in the Jim Crow South. But she was so determined to vote that she kept going to the courthouse every month for two years until she wore the voter registrar down. When he finally handed her a voter registration card, he didn't bother to hide his disgust.
"It was a joy," Burroughs said, recounting her first vote during a 2015
interview with a nonprofit group that collects oral histories. "But the thing about it is, I didn't feel it should have been this hard. I knew it shouldn't have been this hard."
More than 70 years later, it still is hard for many Black people to vote in America -- and the proof can be seen in how this year's presidential election has unfolded, voting rights advocates and historians say.
This 1867 illustration from Harper's Weekly shows African-American men voting in a state election in the South during Reconstruction. Although Black men were allowed to vote after the Civil War, voting rights for African Americans were continually eroded until the 1960s.
The jelly beans test never quite went away; it's just evolved into more sophisticated ploys. They include allegedly
sabotaging the US Postal Service to delay the delivery of mail-in ballots,
limiting sprawling counties in Texas to one ballot drop-box location, and passing stricter voter ID laws to combat allegations of widespread voter fraud, even though those claims have been
debunked in
court and by academic
studies.
Voting-rights advocates say those are just some of the tactics that President Donald Trump, Republican politicians and Republican-appointed judges are employing to prevent Black people -- and other groups who traditionally align with the Democratic Party -- from voting in 2020.
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