My Great Uncle sent this to my family (100+)….Talk about VIRAL MADNESS!

“This is extremely important.Did you know that the right for African Americans to VOTE will expire in the year 2007? Seriously! The Voters Rights Act signed in 1965 by Lyndon B. Johnson was just an ACT. It was not made a law.

Does anyone realize that African Americans are the only group of people who require PERMISSION under the United States Constitution to vote”!

I read this. I freak! This could change my life. But would it happen? I need to do my own research.

From urbanlegends.about.com:

“In reality, all the Act does is keep in place a set of so-called ‘extraordinary remedies’ meant to enforce the Fifteenth Amendment at state and local levels, where, in defiance of federal law, obstacles to the voting rights of black people were still in place in some parts of the country as of the early 1960s.”

From Wikipedia:

“Fifteenth Amendment (1870): Prohibits the federal government and the states from using a citizen’s race, color, or previous status as a slave as a qualification for voting“.

I found more noting my Great Uncle’s information as net-lore.

So is the act still needed?
perrspectives.com
commonblog.com

Ah, the internet, what a great place to find information. Right?

When I refer to any constitution it’s usually mine. In the end I was able to ignore my constitution and learned a little bit more about The Constitution.

All thanks to my Great Uncle! Don’t worry; I gave my family links to The Constitution.

Marvin Webb, Office Manager

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