The Gantt Report
The voting wrong acts
By Lucius Gantt
Every time an election comes around Black voters are told how important it is to vote. They are told that the ancestors of African Americans shed blood and died so that future generations of Blacks would be able to vote.
People want us to exercise our right to vote but those same people donât want to uphold and/or enforce the laws that protect and maintain voting rights!
Its 2015 and it seems like every state in the Union has some prohibition, some clause, some law or some organized effort to deny and decrease the number of votes cast by Blacks and other minorities.
Some people canât vote if they have been to jail even though they have served their sentences and paid their so-called debt to society. Some people canât vote because they donât have a government issued identification card. Some people canât vote because their voting place was suddenly and probably secretly changed. Some people canât vote even if they are registered voters because of a devilish trick called âpartisanshipâ that, for instance, wonât let independents and Democrats vote in a Primary Election if all of the candidates are Republican.
Malcolm X said it many years ago and Iâll say it today, the people you love, the candidates that you love and the political party that you identify with, give money to and throw all of your votes behind will love and support your political enemies more than they will love and support you!
Forty years ago, you put politicians first and they put you last and it is still that way at this very moment!
In addition, the so-called Voting Rights Act 1865, considered to be the most effective piece of civil rights legislation ever enacted in the country, is little more than a political joke!
Even when Black people think they are voting for somebody they are voting for nobody!
Political Parties are nothing but political players, playing like they care about your political interests, playing like they care about the needs of your community and playing like they want Black people to improve, progress, grow and thrive!
Yes, you love the Voting Rights Act. You love the fact that it is a law and therefore, in your mind, it is your pathway to personal and communal paradise.
Well, one political law that Malcolm X pointed out was the law that calls for the removal of any elected official that was elected in a city or state that was found to have been elected when voters were denied voting rights and protections.
If that one law was respected and enforced there wouldnât be a Klansman, a skinhead, a neo-Nazi, a devil or a beast in office anywhere in America!
If you love your right to vote you should take voting seriously and embrace voting rights and put an end to your misled, distorted, irrational and inappropriate Voting Wrong Acts! (Buy Ganttâs latest book, Beast Too: Dead Man Writing on Amazon.com and from bookstores everywhere. Contact Lucius at www.allworldconsultants.net. And, if you want to, âLikeâ The Gantt Report page on Facebook.)
