Tea Party opening speaker suggests law that kept blacks from voting be reinstated

Tea Party opening speaker suggests law that kept blacks from voting be reinstated

From "Raw Story":http://rawstory.com/2010/02/tea-party-opening-speaker-suggests-blacks-voting/ The opening night speaker at the Tea Party convention suggested a return to a "literacy test" to protect America from presidents like Obama -- a segregation-era method employed by southern US states to keep blacks from voting. "In his speech Thursday":http://abcnews.go.com/WN/tea-party-fireworks-speaker-tom-tancredo-rips-mccain/story?id=9751718 to attendees, former Republican congressman Tom Tancredo invoked the loaded pre-civil rights era buzzword, saying that President Barack Obama was elected because "we do not have a civics, literacy test before people can vote in this country." Southern states used literacy tests as part of an effort to deny suffrage to African American voters prior to Johnson-era civil rights laws. Click "here":http://rawstory.com/2010/02/tea-party-opening-speaker-suggests-blacks-voting/ to read the rest of this article.