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Playinghardball

(11,665 posts) Tue Mar 31, 2015, 01:23 PM Mar 2015

15th Amendment, banning racial discrimination in voting, adopted 145 years ago today.

Has been challenged ever since...

Ari Berman @AriBerman
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15th Amendment, banning racial discrimination in voting, adopted 145 years ago today. Has been challenged ever since

12:17 PM - 30 Mar 2015

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15th Amendment, banning racial discrimination in voting, adopted 145 years ago today. (Original Post) Playinghardball Mar 2015 OP

Sometimes, I think bigots see it as a challenge. Behind the Aegis Mar 2015 #1

Behind the Aegis

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1. Sometimes, I think bigots see it as a challenge.

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Tue Mar 31, 2015, 01:38 PM

Mar 2015

They see what they can get away with, sometimes using other groups (women, gays, Muslims) to be the "canary in the coalmine" to see if they can push the envelope to reduce the 15th Amendment to ashes.

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