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