Would you pass?

[michaelboy]

We attended a presentation yesterday at the Underground Railroad Museum in nearby Flushing, OH.

Part of this involved an experiment with the audience attempting to fill-out a reproduction of a literacy test given in 1964 to potential Louisiana voters who could not prove at least a fifth grade education. If one question was missed, it was deemed a failure and consequently you were not permitted to vote.

Not one person in our entire group was able to pass within the allotted 10 minutes.

Obviously, the intent of this test wasn't to insure voter integrity and fairness but was really designed to be something much more treacherous.

Comments

[ofearthandstars]

It's really depressing, isn't it?

[michaelboy]

So insidiously unkind and unfair.