Regarding the Confederate Battle Flag being flown by a Virginia group near Richmond, the following item was noted in the paper today. The bagpipe band at this gathering played the song "Amazing Grace". It should be noted that the song was written by a former slave ship captain-one John Newton-who "later became a minister and renounced his involvement in trafficking humans". (This from the Virginian Pilot on 10/3/13 editorial titled "The Lost and Wretched Cause").
The Virginia Democratic Party is filing a lawsuit against the state over Virginia's plan to "purge" its voter roles of person suspected of being registered to vote in other states, some 57,000 registered voters are involved. The Democrats claim the "database" was created by Republicans. Further complicating the issue is that state election officials have instructed local election officials to use "their best judgment" in deciding "whether to purge voters", meaning that some will be purged while others from the database will not be purged. This will create a "equal protection" possible violation. Counties like Loudoun and Cherterfield will not purge while counties like Fairfax and Prince William will purge. (The Virginian Pilot on 10/3/13 titled "Democrats' suit says GOP seeks to suppress votes").
Update: On reading the above, I wondered what the white/black make-up of the four counties mentioned would be. So I checked. Loudoun County-did not purge voters-is 69 % white and 8 % black giving the thought that the decision to purge or not was a racial one. But Chesterfield-did not purge-is 65 % white and 32 % black suggesting that race was not an issue. Prince William County-did purge-is 58 % white but 40 % black and Hispanic again suggesting the issue may be racial. But Fairfax-did purge-is 70 % white 31 % Asian and Hispanic with 5 % black (I know the numbers don't add up) which doesn't tell me anything re race as an issue. Bottom line; I can not say, based on this research, that the decision was based on race.
(Source: Internet research on Wikipedia 10/4/13)
Update: On reading the above, I wondered what the white/black make-up of the four counties mentioned would be. So I checked. Loudoun County-did not purge voters-is 69 % white and 8 % black giving the thought that the decision to purge or not was a racial one. But Chesterfield-did not purge-is 65 % white and 32 % black suggesting that race was not an issue. Prince William County-did purge-is 58 % white but 40 % black and Hispanic again suggesting the issue may be racial. But Fairfax-did purge-is 70 % white 31 % Asian and Hispanic with 5 % black (I know the numbers don't add up) which doesn't tell me anything re race as an issue. Bottom line; I can not say, based on this research, that the decision was based on race.
(Source: Internet research on Wikipedia 10/4/13)
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