Now is the Time to End Voter Discrimination Against People of Color

   I join with those who suggest now is a time for voter reform in America, to end any discrimination against those of color.
   Ours is a day when we have determined to end discrimination in our institutions, in our government. When I write of how after the Civil War, laws were created to catch African Americans in trite and trumped up offenses, so they could be sent to jail and then reintroduced as prison laborers, and that the practice continued until about 1940, someone writes me back saying that was 80 years ago, as if to say the day of such discrimination has long since passed.
   What, then, of our disenfranchising the vote of minorities? What of closing polls in their neighborhoods so they are forced to jaunt across town if they want to vote? What of under-staffing their polling places, so they have to wait longer than they have time to? What of gerrymandering their voting districts?
   And, there may be other ways the vote of minorities is marginalized. No, we have not left our discrimination behind. With an election coming up, we should be scrambling to ensure that these practices end.
   Justice for George Floyd includes this.