It is another thing for a darkskinned. Latina female with an accent to try to register or vote. This bill hearkens back to the days before the adoption of the 1965 Voting Rights Act in which there were grandfather clauses. poll taxes. literacy tests and outright intimidation by "poll watchers" to determine just who could or could not either register or vote. It saddens me to know that. after a generation. some of the same issues of equality and fairness that one of my constituents. civil rights titan Rosa Parks. stood for are being eroded today. It saddens me to know that. after a generation. some of the same issues of freedom and enfranchisement. a citizen of the City of Detroit. civil rights martyr Viola Liuzzo. died for are being threatened today.
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