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McKinney asks Justice Department to stop South Carolina Primary "The South Carolina republican party is not above the Voting Rights Act." February 4, 2000
Decatur--Sighting section 5 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (D-4th) asked the U.S. Department of Justice to stop any primary election that disenfranchises African American voters. Today, in a letter to Assistant Attorney General, Bill Lann Lee, McKinney disagreed with the South Carolina Republican Party leaders who claimed that they are exempt from the Voting Rights Act. "Their assertion to be exempt from the law is ludicrous. We have always known that the neo-confederates of the south are still fighting the civil war. Unfortunately, the South Carolina republicans just shook their hands and joined their effort to turn back the clock." "George W. Bush and John McCain need to distance themselves from this racist action of the South Carolina republican party who actually seek to deny African American's the right to vote." McKinney concluded. |
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