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On June 20, 2012, I watched twenty-three Republicans all who appeared to be white Americans on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee vote to recommend that Attorney General Eric Holder, an African-American, be cited for contempt of Congress. Seventeen Democrats five who appeared to be African-Americans voted against the unprecedented measure. Many will argue that this is a legal and/or political matter and nothing more. I believe differently. It was a racist act. Representative Cummings was one of the five African-Americans on the committee. Watching his face as he voted and watched others vote broke my heart. It broke my heart because of the emotional, spiritual, and financial pain that racism caused me as a child and an adult. Vera Richardson Preview my Civil Right Act 1964 memoir Screwed by Former Governor and Attorney General Eliot Spitzer
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Will U S Supreme Court June 2013 1965 Voting Rights Decision Deny Minorities Future Presidential Victories?
Will US Supreme Court Voter Right Act of 1965 dec duri 1st BLK POUS term deny other BLKs/Hispanic the White House?:
Update: The Supreme Court ruling dismantled Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 Means Republicians can win back the White House in 2016 with Governor Christie as its nominee.
In this October 2011 video President Obama praises Martin Luther King and the struggle that resulted in the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and ultimately to him becoming this nation's "First" African-American president.
In 2012 President Obama would not have been reelected without the Attorney General Eric Holder’s and the Justice Department enforcing the protections provisions of the 1965 Voting Rights Act
This week the Republicans and conservative justice have an opportunity to either put this country first and right centuries of unjust voting barriers that denied African-Americans full class citizenship or to take this country back to our Racist unjust voting past.
Will Chief Justice John Roberts once again stand up for the good of this nation as a whole and vote to keep Section 5 of the Voting Right Act of 1965 intact?
Just like he did in the "Obamacare" decision, I hope and pray to Jesus that Roberts delivers the deciding vote in favor of justice and liberty for all Americans.
Vera Richardson
Update: The Supreme Court ruling dismantled Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 Means Republicians can win back the White House in 2016 with Governor Christie as its nominee.
In this October 2011 video President Obama praises Martin Luther King and the struggle that resulted in the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and ultimately to him becoming this nation's "First" African-American president.
In 2012 President Obama would not have been reelected without the Attorney General Eric Holder’s and the Justice Department enforcing the protections provisions of the 1965 Voting Rights Act
This week the Republicans and conservative justice have an opportunity to either put this country first and right centuries of unjust voting barriers that denied African-Americans full class citizenship or to take this country back to our Racist unjust voting past.
Will Chief Justice John Roberts once again stand up for the good of this nation as a whole and vote to keep Section 5 of the Voting Right Act of 1965 intact?
Just like he did in the "Obamacare" decision, I hope and pray to Jesus that Roberts delivers the deciding vote in favor of justice and liberty for all Americans.
Vera Richardson
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