Leonard Pitts Jr.: America spends a lot of time trying to kill Democracy
by Leonard Pitts Jr., Tribune Content Agency
Mar 03, 2021
2 minutes
For a nation that supposedly believes in democracy, America spends a lot of time trying to kill it.
In the postbellum era, white Democrats — the conservatives of that day — murdered hundreds of African Americans and forcibly seized state governments in order to disenfranchise Black voters. They constructed all sorts of barriers — poll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clauses
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