your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦Feb 5

RE: https://mastodon.social/@QasimRashid/116018667989776687

YET MILLIONS OF “WHITES” COULD NOT VOTE

in New York, if you didn't have an English sounding name EVEN IF YOU WERE A CITIZEN LIKE PUERTO RICANS, you had to take a test to vote.

the 1975 ammendment to the Voting Rights Act (Section 4e) banned linguistic discrimination, giving millions of migrants, including Europeans, the right to vote in their language.

it’s why section 4(e) is called THE 🇵🇷 PUERTO RICAN AMENDMENT. we shut that shit down after 80 years of lawsuits.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-policy-history/article/vote-aqui-hoy-the-1975-extension-of-the-voting-rights-act-and-the-creation-of-language-minorities/9F9CC8C279BF7D922041AFCDFD8E3CFF

Show thread🕯️Curious Magpie 🕯️
@blogdiva my Hungarian great-grandparents had their name changed from Farkas (meaning wolf) to Wolfe when they arrived in the US, the customs agent just changed it on their paperwork. My Sicilian grandmother married my grandfather from the backwoods of Kentucky with a very bland white name. My Russian grandfather was adopted by relatives in the US and never changed his name. Jews and Italians faced a lot of prejudice at the time. This country has always been a mess but it had ideals. Still does. I hope we eventually live up to those ideals.
Feb 5 at 7:17pmWeb