
{"id":19779,"date":"2011-07-21T10:36:31","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T14:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=19779"},"modified":"2011-07-21T10:36:31","modified_gmt":"2011-07-21T14:36:31","slug":"letter-james-crow-jr-esq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2011\/07\/21\/letter-james-crow-jr-esq\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter: James Crow Jr. Esq."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the extraordinary rise in income inequality in this country, it is no surprise that the worshippers of wealth would work to shrink the democratic franchise for poor people. Jim Crow may be gone on to his reward, but James Crow Jr. Esq. is now dominating the political marketplace.<br \/>\nGeorge Bush Jr. mastermind Karl Rove called this strategy \u00e2\u20ac\u0153caging voters,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d effectively denying voters in south Florida the right to vote if their name was similar to, or rhymed with, the name of a convicted felon.<br \/>\nOur new Republican-led legislature reconvened on July 13 and is working to overturn Gov. Beverly Perdue\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s veto of their earlier efforts to eliminate same-day registration, slice a week off early voting, end straight-ticket voting, eliminate public-financing programs and require a new voter ID.<br \/>\nJim Crow would be proud of these efforts, and, sadly, they will be successful if too few of us are paying attention. Make your voice heard! No return to Jim Crow!<br \/>\nJohn Heuer<br \/>\n<em>Chapel Hill<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the extraordinary rise in income inequality in this country, it is no surprise that the worshippers of wealth would work to shrink the democratic franchise for poor people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19779"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19860,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19779\/revisions\/19860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}