Link:  “If Hillary Clinton decides to run in 2016, perhaps she will explain to residents and elected officials (many of whom are black) in Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas, and Virginia – as well as officials in Brooklyn, the Bronx, Manhattan and a number of counties in other states – why she believes that they are still so racist that they cannot be trusted to run their own elections. She might also explain why she believes they are intent on reviving the “old demons of discrimination,” as she put it in San Francisco. She apparently views parts of America through a distorted prism made in 1965—one that, fortunately, does not reflect our country as it is today.

In reality, Section 5 has been used for decades to mandate noncompetitive, racially gerrymandered, apartheid-type legislative districts. This is the exact opposite of what the civil rights movement was all about.”