Alabama Being Alabama Again

Alabama might as well just send an invitation to the Justice Department. Come on in guys. Come on down.

No need to reply with an RSVP. Because we know you'll be here. How could you resist?

Because Alabama just took a giant step backward.

Take a look at the 10 Alabama counties with the highest percentage of non-white registered voters. That's Macon, Greene, Sumter, Lowndes, Bullock, Perry, Wilcox, Dallas, Hale, and Montgomery, according to the Alabama Secretary of State's office. Alabama, thanks to its budgetary insanity and inanity, just opted to close driver license bureaus in eight of them. All but Dallas and Montgomery will be closed.

Closed. In a state in which driver licenses or special photo IDs are a requirement for voting.

It's not just a civil rights violation. It is not just a public relations nightmare. It is not just an invitation for worldwide scorn and an alarm bell to the Justice Department. It is an affront to the very notion of justice in a nation where one man one vote is as precious as oxygen. It is a slap in the face to all who believe the stuff we teach the kids about how all are created equal.

Every single county in which blacks make up more than 75 percent of registered voters will see their driver license office closed. Every one.

http://www.al.com/opinion/index.ssf/2015/09/alabama_sends_message_we_are_t.html

Yeah Alabama is what it is. Of course you kind of got trolled by the race card on this because essentially the whole state gets the Alabama hose by Jan 2016. Only 4 offices to remain open. That's still ridiculous though.

"In January 2016, a further 12 offices will close. By March, all but four offices in the entire state will shut their doors.

The offices that will remain open, ALEA said, are Huntsville, Montgomery, Mobile, and Birmingham.

"Unfortunately, what citizens can expect are longer lines, oftentimes scheduling way in advance to get an opportunity," said ALEA Secretary Spencer Collier. "Probably the worst is that some... are going to have to travel a significant distance to be able to get that driver's license service."

For those needing to renew existing licenses, you are able to do so online."

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http://www.waff.com/story/29869389/alea-to-begin-closing-drivers-license-offices-4-to-remain-open

Gator....soooooo you think this was a color blind action. I saw stuff in Alabama in the fifties which will never leave my conscious mind......and this is just more of the same.....Dixiecrats and hate.

Omg here we go again ... Like no white people will be affected .... Sheeeesh

The offices that remain will be in the large cities where the largest concentration of minorities reside.

2seaoat wrote:Gator....soooooo  you think this was a color blind action.  I saw stuff in Alabama in the fifties which will never leave my conscious mind......and this is just more of the same.....Dixiecrats and hate.

But then you must "remain a ghost" too. Yep you have an experience for every situation - likely an out-of-body experience but whatever.

No I don't go looking for racial connections to everything that happens in the universe like you hypersensitive (phony ones for the most part) "scaredy-cats" do. I see this for what it is - incompetent lawmakers, and it affects everyone equally.