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Democrats Continue to Try to Rewrite History

written by David Shephard June 7, 2016

In the early 20th century progressive Democrats concocted a scheme to keep black Virginians from voting. Generally known as “Jim Crow” the Democrats in the Legislature and Governors mansion passed laws to disenfranchise black voters. The progressive Democrats claimed that black voters would make uninformed choices and would be more likely then white voters to vote for demagogues who would bribe them with unrealistic promises and taxpayer funded goodies.

Progressive Democrats believed that black voters, specifically the competition for the black vote, would corrupt the political system so they decided to disenfranchise them, and in exchange would adopt a paternalistic view that they could do a better job guarding the interest of black folks then they could.

All my life, I was born just a few years after the civil rights act and the voting rights act, liberals have been trying to rewrite Virginia history and claim that conservatives were the force behind this sad part of our state’s history. A sad chapter in an otherwise glorious book.

Well, enter progressive Democrat Governor Terry McAuliffe. In an effort to help the Hillary for President campaign McAuliffe has identified over 206,000 potential voters in the Old Dominion- Felons!

In an effort to mobilize them in time for November, McAuliffe has decreed that their rights are restored! So it is order, so it shall be. Well, not all their rights, they still can’t own a gun.

In the past convicted felons had to apply to get their rights, including voting rights, back. Now no need to even apply, just register to vote. Of course he has no constitutional right to decree a change in the current legal restoration process.

Now through his surrogates McAuliffe is claiming that banning felons from the voting booth is akin to Jim Crow. On its face this is absurd. A voting ban on felons, which in fact does not exist, would apply equally to white felons as well as black. In addition, the idea of banning convicted criminals from voting predates Jim Crow so the intent has nothing to do with race.

After the voting rights act of 1965 Virginia updated the state constitution to protect the rights of black voters. However restrictions on felons from voting remained in place, because it had nothing to do with race. The purpose of banning felons from voting was to keep felons from voting. Fancy that!

The people of Virginia do not support the automatic restoration of voting rights for felons. So in an effort to gin up support for his decree McAuliffe is claiming that the ban is a remanent of Jim Crow.

How low will McAuliffe stoop for votes?

Democrats Continue to Try to Rewrite History was last modified: June 7th, 2016 by David Shephard
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David Shephard

David Shephard grew up in Fairfax County, attending George Mason University and majoring in government and politics. He started his career in politics as a student volunteer with the Stan Parris for governor campaign in 1989, and currently does lobbying and consulting work in Richmond.

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