Now Joe L. Reed has stepped into the picture of the Montgomery mayoral race, claiming the election time is what? Yep, you guessed it, racism. For some reason, Mr. Reed things students who don’t live in Montgomery should have the right to elect a mayor. Oh, that’s not it kids, he is also claiming that because students should have that right, but aren’t eligible because of restrictions in the amount of time they have resided in the city, that this is diluting (his words, not mine) the black vote. Excuse me for a moment while I attempt to put my eye back in socket, it fell out while I was trying to make sense of his logic.
You can’t take black folks right to vote away to give it to some folks overseas – maybe 100 or 150 folks, and you’re going to deprive some two three thousand folk from voting in the municipal election.
I think the Department of Justice is going to make them change it, withdraw their pre-clearance provision. On the other hand, if they don’t we’re going to go into court either in state court or federal court to stop this election. We do not plan for this election to go forward on August 28th.
Yes, because the students at Huntingdon, AUM and Troy are being discriminated as well. Sorry, I forgot that ASU is the only university in the city. Whoops, my bad.
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PJ, you go to ASU. How did you feel about this decision? Do you think the students who do not live in Montgomery should have the opportunity to vote on city issues? Should ASU students be allowed to vote for the mayor during the next election?