Black Legislatures File Lawsuit To Disband Majority White Cities

[bijou]

No, that headline is not wrong. Now I don't want you folks in New England or the Mid West getting too excited just yet. This sort of thing can only happen in the south because of the most onerous piece of legislation ever passed which is used till this day to keep whitey in his place called the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

    The Georgia Legislative Black Caucus filed a lawsuit Monday against the state of Georgia seeking to dissolve the city charters of Dunwoody, Sandy Springs, Johns Creek, Milton and Chattahoochee Hills. Further, the lawmakers, joined by civil rights leader the Rev. Joseph Lowery, aim to dash any hopes of a Milton County.


That particular piece of legislation has been used to stymie southern state governments from doing things like requiring ID to vote to putting mandates on how redistricting is done. The laws only applies to southern states, which to me should make it subject to some sort of constitutional challenge.

You see these cities crime are that they are predominately white and that is not allowed. It doesn't matter that we have several congressional districts carved out specifically to ensure that there will always be black representatives in congress, that is alright and in fact required by that same Voting Rights act. It is for that reason that people like Cynthia "The Cutest Little Communist in Congress" McKinney and her successor Hank "Guam is Sinking" Johnson have been sucking up taxpayer dollars for decades. John Lewis, who's sole entry on his resume is he walked across a bridge with Martin Luther King Jr and for that feat he has managed to parlay it into a lifetime of congressional service.

Yes folks, according to the black legislatures in Georgia living in a majority white town is soon to be forbidden when they get their way.
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http://jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com/2011/03/black-legislatures-file-lawsuit-to.html

[thundley4]

I wonder if the Voting Rights Act has ever been challenged in court.  It seems it would fail under the equal protection clause these days, and should have back then.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

I wonder if the Voting Rights Act has ever been challenged in court.  It seems it would fail under the equal protection clause these days, and should have back then.

Even if it ought to, it won't. Numerous challenges to Affirmative Action have regrettably survived SCOTUS review.

However, that being said, I doubt any judge wants to go down in history as they guy busting up cities based on little more than race.

[JohnnyReb]

Even if it ought to, it won't. Numerous challenges to Affirmative Action have regrettably survived SCOTUS review.

However, that being said, I doubt any judge wants to go down in history as they guy busting up cities based on little more than race.

You better believe they would.....as long as it wasn't his city.