PHOTO PROMPT © Rochelle Wisoff-Fields
IMPRISONED INTELLIGENCE
In 1960s America, civil rights was still just a dream for many. What should have been an inalienable right – Voting – sometimes had conditions. Negroes had to Prove they were educated, Prove that they were intelligent enough to vote.
A Negro in Alabama approached a polling station. A redneck Cracker handed him a copy of the Hebrew Times to read. When he couldn’t, he was given a sheet of waxed paper and a ballpoint pen, and told to write his name.
When he failed that several times, he said, “I just don’t understand it. I could read and write this morning.” 😯
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Dear Archon,
Appalling and well written.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Thanx again. Like Will Rogers, I just take some of my stuff from the newspaper…. Granted, it was an old newspaper – in the bottom of a box of shoes that I was throwing out. 😉
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How cruel…
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How sad that it is still sometimes true. 😥
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This would be funny if it wasn’t so true…
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The self-righteous, self-appointed gatekeepers still think it’s funny, and they feel that Trump justifies that view. tRump is not the cause of such attitudes, merely a symptom of it. 😯
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There is a theory that feelings of injustice are passed down through the family DNA. How else, so they say, that it takes generations to rise above the past.
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I agree that it happens, but believe that it is caused by constant, subconscious socio-political immersion. There are those who marinate in it, and absorb all the bitterness, and there are those who choose, are able, to rise above it. An eye for an eye just produces a nation of one-eyed citizens. 😯 👿
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Or blind politics.
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Shameful and inexcusable. I was very pleased to see people of color–four of them women–being voted into the House of Representatives here in America. Things have improved.
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We can hope that it will continue to get better, but that is far from guaranteed. 🙂
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Painful to read and timely. We need to remember how hard some have fought for the right to vote – and how sneakily it can be taken away.
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If you count the legal votes, I won the election. If you count the illegal votes, and the late votes, Biden could win.
Sometimes it’s not even sneaky. It’s bombastic, and in plain sight. 😯
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Racism is learned behavior. If it can be learned it can be unlearned. It looks like half of our population needs some serious educating.
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It’s easier to fool a person, than to convince them that they have been fooled.
Mark Twain
Like evangelical religion, the secret is to continuously indoctrinate children. They will blindly agree with you when they are adults.
Sci-Fi authors have written of the idea of community creches. Children are taken from their parents, and raised neutrally, by the state. It sounds reasonable…. until a leader like Trump acquires control. 👿
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Shameful and appalling. Everyone deserves the right to vote. It’s good to see that changes have changed over the years and America now has it’s first woman of color as its VP. Very well written story.
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Thank you. Change for the better, and increased civil rights is always welcome. Now perhaps, a woman (of any color) might be elected president. 🙂
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