FruitOfTheVale
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This story is about exactly what bruh you quoted is talking about:
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/1665860
"A majority of felons and ex-cons blocked from voting reside in a core of six Southern states — Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee and Virginia — where more than 3 million people are banned from the rolls.
Punishing people with felony records hits African Americans harder than other races: 7 percent of blacks are disenfranchised compared to 1.8 percent of the rest of the country, the study found. The numbers are more drastic in Florida and Virginia, political battlegrounds considered crucial in deciding the outcome of November’s election. In Virginia, 20 percent of blacks can’t vote. In Florida, that number is 23 percent. President Obama carried both states in 2008. (Kentucky, which is safely in Republican hands, is the only other state where 1 in 5 African Americans can’t vote.)"
Presuming that they're basing their percentages off of the total black population in these states, if you subtract minors from the state black populations the percentage of black people that can't vote due being felons who would otherwise be eligible is more like 40% or even 45-50%
And like the other poster already mentioned the prisons themselves are typically in white counties where they artificially boost the number of seats they get. That's basically like a plantation owner claiming their slaves as dependents for a tax write-off
at those minority Democrats in the Senate voting for this garbage, one of them being a high ranking member of the state level black caucus. The lone nay vote was a white dude.
