My Anger Has Now Reached Boiling Point!!

30 Sep
2004

brotha-mad

Miami (CNSNews.com) – An African-American civil rights spokeswoman said on Wednesday that the new computerized voting machines “terrify” her, and that blacks are “afraid of machines like that.”

Joanne Bland, the director and co-founder of the National Voting Rights Museum and Institute in Selma, Ala., told CNSNews.com on Wednesday that the new computerized voting machines are going to intimidate black voters in Florida and elsewhere and suppress their vote in the November presidential election because many blacks are not “technologically savvy.”

“The computers really terrify me. The electronic voting — the new machines — I think it will turn off a segment in my community, particularly the elderly. We are not as technically savvy, and we are afraid of machines like that, and they (African-Americans) probably won’t go [to the polls] and they probably won’t ask for assistance, said Bland, who spent the last week in Florida. (full article)

Now, I always knew that these elections were going to get nasty, but this type of self-humiliation has reached levels that has left me almost speechless. To tell the world that Black people are afraid of technology plays right into the imagery of every minstrel show, every exploitation film from the beginning of the 20th century, and every racist belief that black people are just plain imbeciles.

I am now in the process of trying to locate the contact information of this woman. If I reach her, I will give you an update.

Thanks Booker Rising for setting me off >:<

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