links for 2010-09-23

  • In 1930, Virginia's own Sen. Carter Glass introduced a resolution opposing dial telephones in congress, complaining that it was too much work to dial numbers. He also once said of the importance of disenfranchising black voters: "Discrimination! Why that is exactly what we propose. To remove every negro voter who can be gotten rid of, legally, without materially impairing the numerical strength of the white electorate."

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6 replies on “links for 2010-09-23”

  1. Earlier, as a Virginia state senator, Glass described felony disenfranchisement laws, approvingly. as part of a plan to “eliminate the darkey as a political factor in this State in less than 5 years, so that in no single county…will there be the least concern felt for the complete supremacy of the white race in the affairs of government.” He’s long gone, but the laws remain.

  2. I pointed out to a longtime Lynchburg resident that Carter Glass was a racist and he almost had a stroke. FYI : Lynchburg’s E.C. Glass High is named after Edward Christian Glass NOT Carter Glass!

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