The Tampa Bay Times Links- Governor Rick Scott To Racist Governor Wallace

[kpete]

On June 11, 1963, Alabama Gov. George Wallace stands in the doorway of a school auditorium in a symbolic effort to prevent two African-Americans from enrolling at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. Wallace eventually stepped aside.

Dear Gov. Rick Scott,

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"This June, the governor of another Southern state is challenging the federal government's authority. Nearly 50 years after Wallace's showdown, you are standing between Floridians and their right to vote as U.S. citizens. We agree that only citizens should vote, but your approach to cleaning up the voter rolls is fatally flawed. The U.S. Justice Department and county supervisors of election have reached the same conclusion and told you to stop, yet you persist.

Gov. Scott, we do not believe you share Wallace's hateful views on race. Nor are we equating young African-American students of the '60s with noncitizens of today. But it was wrong then to deny those students their right to a public education, and it is wrong now to use an inaccurate database that could deprive U.S. citizens of their right to vote. Of nearly 2,700 voters the state identified as potentially ineligible because they were not citizens, hundreds already have proven they are citizens. Only a handful have been confirmed as noncitizens, and many Floridians who are citizens stand to lose their voting rights by not responding to threatening letters from elections officials. The practical result disproportionately affects poor and minority residents and prevents them from voting in much the same way that black students were denied entry to public schools and universities in Alabama."

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The rest:
http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/editorials/article1234208.ece

[southernyankeebelle]

1. Wallace gave up race division long ago after he was shot. However, before that he was

a racist and waisted so much engery on hate. It was nice to see him renounce that kind of hate. He ended up being a decent person.

[Scurrilous]

2. K & R