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November 29, 2004
Onward, Moral Values
We're not necessarily segregationists. We just don't want to do anything about underfunded public schools, really.
That's the great argument from the opponents of the ballot measure that would "erase segregation-era wording requiring separate schools for 'white and colored children' and to eliminate references to the poll taxes once imposed to disenfranchise blacks.
Opponents claim that part of the amendment could lead to higher property taxes by letting courts declare that education is a constitutional right and then order spending increases for underfunded public schools.
Underfunded public schools. Anybody want to venture a guess about racial and ethnic breakdown of those?
The measure was defeated so the racist language remains on the books.
A lot of papers reporting the story used headlines such as "Alabama Vote Opens Old Racial Wounds". Don't these people they read their own stories before coming up with a title? How is a wound old, and presumably closed, when, more than 41 years after George Wallace blocked the doors of the Foster Auditorium to prevent Vivian Malone and James Hood from enrolling in the University of Alabama, the majority of the voters in the state are not willing to strike language from their state constitution about keeping apart "white and colored children"?
"Posted by zeynep at November 29, 2004 12:43 PM
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The initiative was defeated by about 1/10 of 1% and the votes are being recounted today. If it fails after the recount, it will be written in such a way that people have no fear of a tax increase, and it will pass then.
I know that it is hard for people to understand, but Alabama is very poor. The tax system is perhaps the most regressive in the country. People here are really scared of a tax increase. The bad guys had a powerful argument: Why risk more taxes to remove a law that isn't even enforced?
I am proud that the vote was as close as it was. We will win next time.
Posted by: Another Ted at November 29, 2004 02:52 PM
While I don't doubt that for some people this was an easy way to express their hideous beliefs without any real consequence, the issue is complicated by 1) the tax scare (however false), and 2) a desire to trash the state constitution entirely, and start afresh, rather than applying cosmetic fixes to it.
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