I guess when they lynched all those blacks who may have looked at a white woman or blacks who wanted to vote it was just those little bitty constitutional rights that were stepped on. Someone find me in that constitution thing where it says anything about looking at women and hanging. This is another dumb apologetic for nonsense that sounds like it says something and really says nothing. For anyone online here who wants to truly understand these issues see book quoted below. The constitution means nothing if the civil rights of people can be steeped on by states and other government powers. Wake up people and smell reality.
"At least in the South, however, white supremacists did not need to control the Supreme Court in order to control their state's policies-or the votes that their senators and representatives would cast in Congress. Democracy, it turns out, does not mean much at all if many of the voters cannot vote.
For eighty-two long years, from 1875 until 1957, Congress did not pass a single civil rights bill. Indeed, this was true even when such legislation enjoyed majority support. Five civil rights bills passed the House between the end of World War II and 1957, but none of them survived contact with the Senate."
The reason for this inability to legislate was the filibuster, which allowed Southern white supremacists to block any bill they chose, so long as they could convince just a handful of conservatives outside the South to join their obstruction of the legislative process." Moreover, because Southern voting officials ensured that few black voters would actually get to cast meaningful ballots, white supremacist lawmakers faced no consequences for their opposition to civil rights.
The Jim Crow South was largely a collection of one-party states between 1916 and 1944, for example, the Republican presidential candidate won more than 5 percent of the vote in South Carolina just one time." Thus, the winner of a Democratic primary in the South was virtually guaranteed election, and general elections were largely formalities. For this reason, segregationists could exclude African Americans from the franchise entirely by preventing them from voting in Democratic Party primaries.
In 1923, one state tried to do just that by enacting a law providing that "in no event shall a $#@! be eligible to participate in a Democratic party primary election held in the State of Texas"though this first attempt to suppress the black vote did not end well for Texas."
page 185 'Injustices: The Supreme Court's History of Comforting the Comfortable and Afflicting the Afflicted' Ian Millhiser
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