At the risk of getting too political for a writerly blog, I think it’s important to keep the past in transparent perspective. Nowadays we have voter I.D. laws which appear to be targeting a certain kind of voter, namely, the kind who tends to vote for Democrats and/or with a more liberal slant. In the past, we (or at least some of us) had literacy tests.
What we think of when we think of literacy is the ability to read. There are specific types of literacy, though, such as musical literacy, historical literacy, cultural literacy, and so on, but none of them is in play in this literacy test from Louisiana in 1964. What it’s trying to do is confuse the demonstrably literate, but it’s insidious in that you can just hear some George Wallace type saying, “Thisyeer test is meant to see if y’all can use logic and critical…
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