Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Tom Tancredo literacy test

Tom Tancredo stated a week ago that he wants to bring back the literacy test for voting rights. I think that he was serious about this but, i don't think that it is a good idea. When someone relly thinks about it people fought for these right and died so that all people could vote. Now after all that hard work they want to bring back these test, so that people can't vote. Tom stated that if a person does not know how to spell or say vote that they should not have the right to vote.
To me I think that there should npot be a test. I believe that he should step into the shoes of those people that want to have the right to vote. Yeah they might not be able to pronounce it correctly but that should not stop them from voting. I am a Puerto Rican and i think that we should not judge someone by where they come from more on what they bring to the table. I would be very disappointed if they did bring back the literacy test. The people that come here not to bring trouble, but rather to live a better life than what they had. This topic of literacy test does not only concern hispanics, black , it also concerns white people. People of there kind, some of them can come from Italy or Poland and they all have accents or speak another language. Would those people get the privillage to vote just because of there skin color? I think that Tom Tancredo should really think about what he is saying and put himself in those other peoples shoes, to see if it really is fair or not.

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