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 threadyour auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦Feb 5

BTW this is why a lot of y’all don’t carry your ancestors actual last names. this is particularly insidious with Southern and Eastern Europeans.

my mother was a freckly, naturally blonde, melanin-challenged Puerto Rican woman. she was also taller than your average white USian. many times mami was asked if she was from Sweden or Poland.

mami had to take that English test. you know what they told her to not take it? CHANGE YOUR NAME.

mami often said this was her CRM radicalizing moment.

Show threadyour auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦Feb 5

PS:

Wikipedia has an actual, on-going list of Trump’s efforts to permanently suppress the vote and deny our voting rights ―since he successfully did so to millions of Zillennials in 2024 (yes, i know, aided and abetted by the Biden administration):

Republican Party efforts to disrupt voting after the 2024 United States presidential election - Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_efforts_to_disrupt_voting_after_the_2024_United_States_presidential_election

#2024Elections #2026Elections #USpol #fascism

Republican Party efforts to disrupt voting after the 2024 United States presidential election - Wikipedia

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