Let me ask a question... If you are black, live in Florida, and were told by your white boss that you can't vote on election day because "blah, blah, blah...(make up reason)." And if you do, you will be fired. What do you do? What would YOU do? This is just a hypothetical question. Because, as we know, this would never happen in real life.
I think Baq is correct about that.. usually national law will supersede state laws but you could contact your company's HR dept. like someone said earlier I would go vote (try to be considerate and choose time/place that is convenient to yourself and your employer) and if you still have problems you could file a grievence. J
I assume the rolleyes at the end of this sentence means that you think this would or already has happened. Do you have an example of this happening? If not, then why even ask the question?
Black vote de-franchisment already happened back in 2000. So, that's shouldn't be a surprise to you. As for this election. Intimidation has already occurred. Bob Herbert was interviewed on CNN last night. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/16/o...=01a3e0df2ded98f4&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland
i've talked to people who indicate this is a problem. it's a paradigm shift for me...because i didn't grow up in a community where this was a problem. i was insulated from it. protected, really. but in communities where authorities are viewed with a sense of suspicion, it's quite easy to intimidate people at the polls. the presence of those authorities alone can do the trick. sadly, all indications are that this sort of thing still goes on.
I'm sure this sort of thing does happen. However, the protections are in place. All they (the black Floridian voters) have to do is avail themselves of those protections. I'm not sure what the republic can do -- short of mandatory voting -- for people who refuse to speak up when there is a problem.
I was actually talking about white bosses telling their black employees that they can't vote and threatening to fire them if they do. When has this happened?
What about the employees who are being discriminated against? If this is happening, why aren't they reporting it? It's against the law.
I, too took David's post to be a preamble to specific instances of a white boss forbidding a black employee from voting. I would not be shocked if it has happened, but am not quite ready to accept that there's some systematic movement by white bosses in Florida to do this. If, however, this was meant to be a general acknowledgement of disenfranchisement of minority voters, and actions by certain authorities that contribute to this, then i'll agree it's an issue. I just think the example used was poor -- unless he's setting us up for a clipping of such an occurance.
ima_drummer2k, This was a hypothetical on what YOU would do if it happened to YOU. I wanted people's opinion on this. You are free to answer as well. The elections are coming, thus some people will be warry of thigns like this;in Nov. Not necessarily now.
Even if this happened, couldn't the person in question get around it by early voting? Back to the real world - felony voters is a bigger problem in Florida.
