TIME FOR SOME REAL CHANGE: - Just a Minute for Monday 01-19-09

            Howdy on a Monday Morning…

 

            Did *you* get enough snow to make a snowball yesterday? Maybe that ought to be the standard by which we make a decision to close schools or not?  And what about Sunday School?  Does it operate on a different standard. Some SS superintendents think so. J What do you think?

 

            Tomorrow portends to be an historical landmark in America’s history. The day on which the first black American takes the oath of office of President of the USA. Everybody’s excited, particularly those who live in states which have had congressional districts gerrymandered by the courts or legislators creating voting districts of a particular race majority. It’s a questionable result of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 which injected court decisions into heretofore state decisions. It’s been part of the “law of the land” now for 44 years.

 

            But tomorrow we install a President whose success in getting elected arguably demonstrates whatever justified the Federal government getting involved, is no longer applies – or does it?  It’s a question that ought to be considered post haste. The Washington Post says Mississippi now has more black elected office holders than white ones – not more per-capita – but simply more. Which would indicate there’s no longer any need for courts to be overseeing state political functions.

 

            Well… we’ll see how it unravels. I suspect there will be a LOT of unraveling to be done within the next four years or so. I think the mood of the country is to give the new President the honeymoon that is traditional between him and the press or the opposing party. But it will be interesting to see just how this timeline plays out. There will be some fascinating debates – I think.

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

 

            Jack

 

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“JUST A MINUTE”

TIME FOR SOME REAL ‘CHANGE’

Just A Minute – No question – Everybody’s looking at the inauguration. Everything else, except lauding “Sully” the U.S. Air pilot who landed in the Hudson mostly uneventfully, is pushed out of the headlines. But we’re skipping the plain-as-the-nose-on-your-face story that’s gotten hardly any play. It ought to be among the first ten bills the President signs.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 – prohibits states from imposing any ‘voting qualification’ to deny or abridge the right of any U.S. citizen to vote on account of race or color.  That’s very close to the language of the 15^th amendment. It’s been part of our legal system for 44 years. Mississippi now has more black office holders than white ones – not more per capita, but simply more. It creates minority-majority congressional districts.

Since so much has been made of the “CHANGE” on which the incoming President ran we anxiously await the incoming President wiping out that legal blot on our constitutional treatment for all Americans. One of his first legislative acts should correct that manifestly un-equal treatment of some Americans.

<> I’m Jack Buttram

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