How Dare They
by ChrisOctober 18th, 2004 7:34 pm
A little more on the Republican Party’s genuinely repugnant disenfranchisement strategy in Philadelphia. I can’t even tell you how disgusted I am. How dare an American political party attempt to suppress any vote? Any vote? How dare any Philadelphian attempt to keep his or her fellow Philadelphians from expressing their will on election day.
Our city is packed, and I mean packed, with the graves, both marked and unmarked, of people who died in order to achieve the freedom to choose one’s own leaders. My own neighborhood, Washington Square West, is named for a park that is the mass grave for thousands who were killed, or died of disease and starvation in our revolution. Who died to give us this country. Their names are unknown but their cause is not. Our buildings, the very buildings we live in, are covered with memorials to soldiers who fought and died to end slavery, our country’s greatest crime against humanity. Our most cherished historical sites house the unmarked graves of those who never escaped slavery and who never knew the simple freedoms we claim to cherish.
How can you reconcile the bile that came from the mouth of Republican ward leader Matt Robb in order to justify his party’s attempt to disenfranchise his fellow Americans? His fellow Philadelphians.
Matt Robb - “It’s predominantly, 100 percent black. I’m just not going in there to get a knife in my back.”
What sort of a person is this and what sort of party does he represent? How does anybody pretend to respect or love America when they attempt to deprive its citizens of their fundamental rights? What sort of person attempts to silence their voices simply because they disagree with his own? How dare he? How dare they?
Another question. Think back to November of 2000. What sort of presidential candidate sues to stop a vote count?
