RACHEL SETS THE RECORD STRAIGHT

H.R. 1503

Any educated person should recognize H.R. 1503 for what it is.  In the south, we called it "Jim Crow" legislation.

Congressman Bill Posey and his Republican posse are a bunch of segregationist, racist thinking southern dixiecrats who can't stand the fact that a person with African blood  or "N" blood, won the presidential election.

With the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, the Pat Buchanan's of the world are even more worked up.

Jim Crow was the name of the racial caste system which operated primarily, but not exclusively in southern and border states, between 1877 and the mid-1960s.

Blacks were denied the right to vote by grandfather clauses (laws that restricted the right to vote to people whose ancestors had voted before the Civil War), poll taxes (fees charged to poor Blacks), white primaries (only Democrats could vote, only Whites could be Democrats), and literacy tests ("Name all the Vice Presidents and Supreme Court Justices throughout America's history"). Plessy sent this message to southern and border states: Discrimination against Blacks is acceptable. [Dr. David Pilgrim, Professor of Sociology]

Let's face it. There are natural born citizens who cannot get their hands on their birth certificates.  Most reasons: Their births were not registered and/or they don't know where or when they were born or who their parents are. This is especially true of people born into slavery or "half breed" children of slave owners.

I could go on an on, but let's call this what it amounts to … Jim Crow legislation  … Legislation meant to deny a race of people the same rights that most white citizens enjoy.