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by EdwardDiego
2039 days ago
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Wait, grandfathered in is racist? How? Edit, for other's curious, as the person I'm replying to said, it's not racist per se, but has its origins in racist practice: > The term originated in late nineteenth-century legislation and constitutional amendments passed by a number of U.S. Southern states, which created new requirements for literacy tests, payment of poll taxes, and/or residency and property restrictions to register to vote. States in some cases exempted those whose ancestors (grandfathers) had the right to vote before the American Civil War, or as of a particular date, from such requirements. The intent and effect of such rules was to prevent African-American former slaves and their descendants from voting, but without denying poor and illiterate whites the right to vote. |
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