Several repugican-led states have already rushed to capitalize on the Supreme
Court's recent rejection of the Voting Rights Act, but some say the price for threatening MLK's
dream could be a nightmare for the repugican cabal.
Indeed, the high court could hardly have picked a more historically
fraught moment to roll back a major civil rights law -- just two months before the 50th anniversary
of the King's March on Washington.
It was a watershed moment -- a moment when hundreds of thousands of
Americans turned out to hear King's historic "I Have a Dream" speech and to show a strength of
numbers that helped propel the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Fifty years later, with the racist Supreme Court having stricken the
Voting Rights Act, North Carolina, Texas, Mississippi and Alabama are already moving ahead to enact new
ballot restrictions.
Suddenly, the next march on Washington, set for Aug. 24, 2013, promised
to be less a stroll down memory lane and more the writing of a new chapter of
history.
The repugican cabal's dilemma remains:
They can't win unless they move to the Left and they're not moving so they're not winning.
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