When stupid people judge

Yahoo has an article about a town in New York, 25 miles northeast of NYC, in which a Federal judge recently ruled to force the town to have cumulative voting. Essentially all voters in the town receive six votes to delegate how they wish. What's disturbing is the intention, which is that the town is comprised of nearly half Hispanics and has never had a Hispanic village trustee. So the Federal judge believed this violated the Voting Rights Act (VRA). This requires some history.

The VRA was signed into law in 1965 by President Johnson, which ended the Southern practice of discriminating against blacks by having literacy tests, poll taxes and other such devices to try to the best of their ability to preclude as many blacks as possible from voting. For my own amusement, 94% of Republicans voted for this in the Senate vs. 73% of Democrats; and 82% of Republicans voted for this in the House vs. 78% of Democrats. So when Democrats try to misconstrue (aka lie about) history and tell you that the Republican Party is the Party of Racism, cite them these facts (beside the fact that the Republican Party was founded on the basis of abolishing slavery).

So back to this Federal judge, he believed that this town violated the VRA simply because they never elected a Hispanic village trustee. What irks me even more than this bonehead judge trying to get a specific outcome, is the waste of money that was put into "educating" voters in this town. "The village held 12 forums — six each in English and Spanish — to let voters know about the new system and to practice voting. The bilingual ballot lists each candidate across the top row..." In order to get naturalized, one has to have a command of the English language, this eliminates the necessity of having a bilingual ballot. If people want to partake in the voting process, LEARN ENGLISH. What irks me even more is this dumb broad, "I hope that if Hispanics get in, they do something for all the Hispanic people," Sandoval said in Spanish. "I don't know, but I hope so."

If she can't speak English, she's probably an illegal immigrant, and should thus be deported. But I digress, why is she expecting special treatment from a Hispanic village trustee solely because she's Hispanic? Imagine the justified outrage if a Candidate ran on the basis of representing only white people? Morons would jump to their feet and call out racism/bigotry/etc. Perhaps we've come to a point in our Nation's history where we should only worry about our own race, and make sure that our own race gets special treatment and make sure that other races don't infringe on our so called rights. Perhaps whites should, while they still comprise a majority in this country, rise up and vote in politicians that will deport the 12-20 million illegal immigrants before they're naturalized and given voting rights. Perhaps these new found voting rights will incur other Federal judges to bestow on them the right of cumulative voting? This judge's decision should be cause for concern for any and all that believe all men were created equal.