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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 5 points 1 week ago

And I find it racist of you to assume that a minority is somehow incapable of passing an exam.

I'm begging you to please read this Wikipedia article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_test

Between the 1850s and 1960s, literacy tests were used as an effective tool for disenfranchising African Americans in the Southern United States. Literacy tests were typically administered by white clerks who could pass or fail a person at their discretion based on race. Illiterate whites were often permitted to vote without taking these literacy tests because of grandfather clauses written into legislation.

Other countries, notably Australia, as part of its White Australia policy, and South Africa adopted literacy tests either to exclude certain racialized groups from voting or to prevent them from immigrating to the country.

Video showing one of the actual tests from the Jim Crow era. https://youtu.be/6lor3sfk-BE