Hundreds of students at Prairie View A&M University on Tuesday began rallying for their right to vote.
They say a decision to eliminate all but one early voting location in Waller County makes it hard for students to cast ballots.
The marchers, in black shirts with the slogan “It is 2008 and we will vote,” carried signs and wore demanded changes in how elections are run in the county.
Police estimated that the crowd topped 2,000 as the marchers paraded from the Prairie View A&M campus seven miles to the Waller County Courthouse in Hempstead.
If you’re not familiar with it, Prairie View A&M is a historically black university. That this kind of shit happens in 2008 is unconscionable. But good on the students for standing up for their rights.
Then again, we still have people like Bill O’Reilly, who think nothing of making racist comments about the wife of the leading Democratic presidential nominee. If you haven’t heard, here’s what he said:
I don’t want to go on a lynching party against Michelle Obama unless there’s evidence, hard facts, that say this is how the woman really feels. If that’s how she really feels—that America is a bad country or a flawed nation, whatever—then that’s legit. We’ll track it down.
I guess we’re going to have to get used to all the bigots coming out of the woodwork. How does O’Reilly still have a job? (Also, what’s up with his wording there? “I don’t want to go on a lynching party … unless there’s evidence”? OK, so you don’t really want to string Michelle Obama up from a tree, um, unless she makes you? How honourable, Bill.)
It’s shit like this that makes Australians ask me if America is really “ready” to elect a black president. By reply, I usually just point to Obama’s margins of victory, and then reassure them that most Americans aren’t ignorant, back-woods, fuckhead douchebags like Bill O’Reilly.
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