Take the Impossible “Literacy” Test Louisiana Gave Black Voters in the 1960s

[TallFrenchy]

i finished it in 10 minutes and I didnt miss one.

I have an IQ of 125, so i am not that smart. Anyone can do this test. I am also not well-rested either.


I think a test like this is good. i used to object to things like this but the 47% has too much power in this country. they are unfairly shaping policy disproportinantely to their interests.

For 99% of people, this test is impossible to pass in 10 mins, don't delude yourself.












Aren't you the guy who said you were scared of black people? Someone has you in their siggy.

 

[Higher Tech]

wow yall dumb as hell. i just finished thisin last than 5 minutes. you dont even have to think about it. just answer teh question. i did it with my coworkers. that was possibly the dumbest/easiest test ive ever taken

 

[Marvel]

They didn't have to take it.

That is what I am alluding too. They are setting standard that white voters couldn't reach.

 

[YoungMasterGold]

This is a pretty easy test for me but it's more like an IQ test than a literacy test. The majority of CACs taking this test would fail too

i finished it in 10 minutes and I didnt miss one.

I have an IQ of 125, so i am not that smart. Anyone can do this test. I am also not well-rested either.


I think a test like this is good. i used to object to things like this but the 47% has too much power in this country. they are unfairly shaping policy disproportinantely to their interests.

If you are Black or classified as one of the other, then, no, you didn't pass the test. That's the point. It matters not one whit how clever or, like the Zeon guy, "not that smart" you are, the powers that be can interpret several questions in such a way as to mean you got the answer wrong. For example, question 20 "Spell backwards, forwards". The smart Black person goes ahead and spells "backwards". The White dikkhead trying to disenfranchise can still fail said Black person because it can also be interpreted as spell "backwards" AND "forwards". And that's just one quick example of the top of my head.

wow yall dumb as hell. i just finished thisin last than 5 minutes. you dont even have to think about it. just answer teh question. i did it with my coworkers. that was possibly the dumbest/easiest test ive ever taken

most credible thing I've read today.

 

[Brown_Pride]

you gotta commend the mental ether on this though. I mean honestly they flaunted this out there like it was something a 5th grader should be able to do on some, "you're not even as smart as a 5th grader" type shyt. LOL@ #25 being an optical illusion/brain fuk.

and wtf does drawing 5 circles have to do with reading?
I'm surprised they didn't have
"How many animals kinds of each animal did Moses take on the arc?"

 

[blackzeus]

I'm gonna get negged to hell, but should you really be able to vote if you can't answer basic questions? You can't draw a circle around a sentence but you get to decide which president will run my country? Call me a c00n, whatever you want. Now, with that said, it would be a fair test NOW. But in antebellum USA, no, not fair, because most blacks (and a fair amount of whites) didn't even know how to read and write. But if you have a USA high school education and can't answer those questions, ....

 

[blackzeus]

If you are Black or classified as one of the other, then, no, you didn't pass the test. That's the point. It matters not one whit how clever or, like the Zeon guy, "not that smart" you are, the powers that be can interpret several questions in such a way as to mean you got the answer wrong. For example, question 20 "Spell backwards, forwards". The smart Black person goes ahead and spells "backwards". The White dikkhead trying to disenfranchise can still fail said Black person because it can also be interpreted as spell "backwards" AND "forwards". And that's just one quick example of the top of my head.

The white dikkhead is right. If the sentence read "Spell backwords, forwards, moon, telescope, and atheism", you would have spelled out all the words. Again, you have to be quasi-retarded to not get those questions right even if you have a formal USA high school education. I can't really hate on someone for requiring a high school educated individual to answer those questions Now preventing people from getting educated or having a decent life like the Tulsa situation, that is a whole different story. The interesting question would be what percentage of white Southerners passed this test?

 

[Hiphoplives4eva]

The white dikkhead is right. If the sentence read "Spell backwords, forwards, moon, telescope, and atheism", you would have spelled out all the words. Again, you have to be quasi-retarded to not get those questions right even if you have a formal USA high school education. I can't really hate on someone for requiring a high school educated individual to answer those questions Now preventing people from getting educated or having a decent life like the Tulsa situation, that is a whole different story. The interesting question would be what percentage of white Southerners passed this test?

You sound like an complete and utter moron. Are you actually trying to defend this exam as a "good" test of ones intellect? I'm sure even the test writers would laugh at this idea. It appears the writers of this "exam" were barely literate their damn selves. And in your poor example, why exactly is the "white dikkhead" right? The question itself is nonsensical. A "good" test question shouldn't have multiple possibly correct answers. I think its time for you to leave the c00n picnic breh.

 

[Brown_Pride]

If you are Black or classified as one of the other, then, no, you didn't pass the test. That's the point. It matters not one whit how clever or, like the Zeon guy, "not that smart" you are, the powers that be can interpret several questions in such a way as to mean you got the answer wrong. For example, question 20 "Spell backwards, forwards". The smart Black person goes ahead and spells "backwards". The White dikkhead trying to disenfranchise can still fail said Black person because it can also be interpreted as spell "backwards" AND "forwards". And that's just one quick example of the top of my head.




most credible thing I've read today.

Spell backwards, forward
drawrof

That's how you spell backwards, the word forward. YOU FAIL.

Anyone even remotely defending the legitimacy of this test is a fukin idiot.

Basically when they started asking people to draw LINES...AROUND things you should know right away.

I can see it now. Tyrone Johnson comes up and hears this:

Test Examiner: "That's not a line that's a curve"
Tyrone: How else am i supposed to draw a line AROUND something without it curving?
Test Examiner: "If you were as smart as a 5th grader you'd know."

 

[daze23]

Some of you are missing the point. It was not meant to be a "real" literacy test

are you referring to what I said?

I would think that if you really wanted to design a test to test literacy like this, you should be able to do it with just one, or maybe a few questions

this crap is just "lets see if we can manage to confuse you with at least one of these 30 confusing questions"

 

[YoungMasterGold]

The white dikkhead is right. If the sentence read "Spell backwords, forwards, moon, telescope, and atheism", you would have spelled out all the words.

You missed the point. The question is written in such a way that anyone with the mind to it can interpret it in such a way as to make any answer provided the "wrong" answer. It's not even a proper sentence - hence the further ambiguity.

Again, you have to be quasi-retarded to not get those questions right even if you have a formal USA high school education.

Again, several of those questions don't have one right answer. That's the point of the "literacy" test in which one wrong answer is deemed a fail and, ha ha, a sign of illiteracy and too stupid to vote. That's right, getting 29 out of 30 answers right in that bullshyt means you're too dumb to vote. It's a wonder anyone got to vote, right?

The interesting question would be what percentage of white Southerners passed this test?

All those that weren't ****** lovers, probably.

Spell backwards, forward
drawrof

That's how you spell backwards, the word forward. YOU FAIL.

Nah, you failed, homes. It's "Spell backwards, forwards." Not only did you fail to spot the ambiguity, you forgot the "s" in forwards. See how that works.

Anyone even remotely defending the legitimacy of this test is a fukin idiot.

Basically when they started asking people to draw LINES...AROUND things you should know right away.

I can see it now. Tyrone Johnson comes up and hears this:

Test Examiner: "That's not a line that's a curve"
Tyrone: How else am i supposed to draw a line AROUND something without it curving?
Test Examiner: "If you were as smart as a 5th grader you'd know."

True.

 

[Richard Wright]

Exactly. The point of this test was for say 80 percent to not even finish/bother, 10 percent finish and be disqualified by ambiguity, and the final 10 percent passed and got lynched on their way home.

 

[ltheghost]

shyt looks like I wouldn't have been voting....












































and neither would have anyone else.......(random shootings at poll places) Pulling cac tricks to stop me from voting...I'll show them.

 

[ZEB WALTON]

breh, if you honestly feel this test is "IMPOSSIBLE", "DIFFICULT", or even "SLIGHTLY DIFFICULT" you got a problem. i seriously went through that shyt in 4-5 minutes in the middle of work 40-50 people around me.

thanks to this test, i can now air out who is a a retard on this forum and not listen to their opinions. I think im going to block everyone who called this test hard so when im in "Higher Learning" my brain isnt tainted with their dumb ass opinions. i mean jesus christ people. i'd laugh if it wasnt so damn sad.

This test was made to fool the POOR & UNEDUCATED. People who cant read. People who are slow. People who are dumb as fukk

If you are posting on this forum in 2013 and find ANY of these questions mind boggling you're a big dummy. Keep ya conspiracy theories to yourself. Keep your political opinions to yourself. Watch and listen to the world but dont dare speak up. Now I know why THE MAN made these tests...I finally get it.. Cause I now see if you cant get through this shyt easily you shouldnt be able to cast your opinion against a person who knows the difference between left and right.

i literally cant believe some of you are complaining how hard this is. I hope ya'll joking. i pray to god you are. Least now I know who to add to my ignore list when they have a problem with my opinion and dare speak up because they have a tongue or the ability to type sentences with clarity.

wow...

 

[Higher Tech]

breh, if you honestly feel this test is "IMPOSSIBLE", "DIFFICULT", or even "SLIGHTLY DIFFICULT" you got a problem. i seriously went through that shyt in 4-5 minutes in the middle of work 40-50 people around me.

thanks to this test, i can now air out who is a a retard on this forum and not listen to their opinions. I think im going to block everyone who called this test hard so when im in "Higher Learning" my brain isnt tainted with their dumb ass opinions. i mean jesus christ people. i'd laugh if it wasnt so damn sad.

This test was made to fool the POOR & UNEDUCATED. People who cant read. People who are slow. People who are dumb as fukk

If you are posting on this forum in 2013 and find ANY of these questions mind boggling you're a big dummy. Keep ya conspiracy theories to yourself. Keep your political opinions to yourself. Watch andi listen to the world but dont dare speak up. Now I know why THE MAN made these tests...I finally get it.. Cause I now see if you cant get through this shyt easily you shouldnt be able to cast your opinion against a person who knows the difference between left and right.

i literally cant believe some of you are complaining how hard this is. I hope ya'll joking. i pray to god you are. Least now I know who to add to my ignore list when they have a problem with my opinion and dare speak up because they have a tongue or the ability to type sentences with clarity.

wow...

I refuse to read all that bullshyt. Have your moment of glory.

Edit: Yea, you can ignore me and save us both the trouble.