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I read Carol Anderson's first book White Rage and that was an awesome book. This book, One Person, No Vote is a must read. Given the current state of affairs, every person that votes needs to read this book. It highlights how only one side (Republicans) have diligently worked to suppress and compromise the votes of many American citizens. It is horrible what has been done to deny so many Americans their lawful and constitutional right to vote. And this all done to maintain absolute and total power for the super elite in this country.


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One Person No Vote How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy Carol Anderson Dick Durbin 9781635571370 Books Reviews

This book and Ari Berman's Give us the Ballot help explain how our democracy is being destroyed and how Trump and the Republican controlled Congress happened. Anderson describes in detail the systematic disenfranchisement that has taken the vote away from many Americans and has destroyed the balance of power of our government. If you read no other book this year, READ THIS ONE.
Democrats tend to act as though the greatest harm that results from all the recent monkeying around with voter registration and election mechanics is that the Republican Party gains an unfair advantage. That's true, of course, as far as it goes. But what is often lost in the debate about voter suppression, gerrymandering, and voter ID laws is that they disproportionately disenfranchise African-Americans and other people of color. The reality is that these widely employed Republican tactics are reminiscent of the Jim Crow laws of the 19th and 20th centuries. And that's the underlying theme of Professor Carol Anderson's trenchant new book, One Person, No Vote How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy.

"The central issue of racial justice in our time the right to vote"
News reports about voter suppression, gerrymandering, and voter ID laws often give the impression that only a handful of states are affected. This is absolutely untrue. One article may focus on events in North Carolina, another on Wisconsin or Texas. But the pattern is pervasive. "In 2017," Anderson notes, quoting an article by Ari Berman in The Nation, "'99 bills to limit access to the ballot have been introduced in 31 states . . . and more states have enacted new voting restrictions in 2017 than in 2016 and 2015 combined.'"

These tactics indisputably represent a nationwide Republican strategy designed to mitigate the effects of their party's growing demographic disadvantage as people of color steadily approach a majority of the nation's population. And the impact of these tactics is substantial. Professor Anderson cites studies that show how lowered turnout in African-American and Latino communities undoubtedly played a part in Donald Trump's election in 2016.

How Republicans steal elections today voter suppression, gerrymandering, and voter ID laws
In One Person, No Vote, Anderson briefly surveys the history of voting rights in America. However, unlike many other treatments of the subject, she explains exactly how the laws and practices that constituted Jim Crow resulted in dramatically limiting African-American voter participation. Of course, Jim Crow was avowedly, belligerently racist. The poll tax, "literacy" tests, the white primary, and other tactics were explicitly designed to keep black people from voting.

Today, by analogy, we have voter suppression, gerrymandering, voter ID laws, voter roll purges, limiting access to polling places, denying felons the right to vote, and other nefarious tactics. These techniques are not overtly racist. But the effect is similar—and so too, all too often, is the motivation. The upshot is that people of color aren't the only ones to suffer. All of us Americans are paying the price, as we watch the integrity of our democratic system gradually slip into the mists of history.

Naturally, this pattern is not solely the doing of the institutional Republican Party. The courts, including the United States Supreme Court, have played a crucial role as well, most egregiously in undermining the Voting Rights Act. So-called "conservative" judges defer to states' rights and the Founding Fathers' alleged intentions when it is convenient for them to do so. (If these "conservatives" are conserving anything, it's not democracy.)

"North Carolina is no longer a fully functioning democracy"
"In 2016," Anderson writes, "the Economist Intelligence Unit, which had evaluated 167 nations on sixty different indicators, reported that the United States had slipped into the category of a 'flawed democracy' . . . Similarly, the Electoral Integrity Project . . . was stunned to find that when it applied [the same] calculations in the United States it had in Egypt, Yemen, and Sudan, North Carolina was 'no longer considered to be a fully functioning democracy.' Indeed, if it were an independent nation, the state would rank somewhere between Iran and Venezuela."

One major theme is missing from this book
By focusing on voter suppression, gerrymandering, and voter ID laws, Professor Anderson avoids an equally consequential flaw in American democracy the rural-urban split built into the Constitution. Each state, no matter how small its population, seats two United States Senators, thus conferring a huge advantage on small, predominantly rural states. And the Electoral College reinforces that advantage by enabling presidential candidates to win election even if they fail to capture a majority of the votes cast.

In a seminar I attended recently sponsored by the New York Times, political scientist Norman Ornstein of the conservative think tank, American Enterprise Institute, revealed that by 2040, 70 percent of the American population will live in 15 states. Thus, 30 percent of the people will elect 70 percent of the Senate. The population ratio of the biggest to the smallest state is 701 today, he noted. Does this sound like democracy to you? It doesn't to me.

About the author
Professor Carol Anderson chairs the African-American Studies department at Emory University. She is the author of White Rage (2016), a New York Times bestseller that explores how the legacy of structural racism has led to white anger and resentment. The book was widely read, and widely praised, for its contribution to the debate about the dynamics of the 2016 Presidential election.
I got an ARC of this book.

Do you enjoy being enraged by a book? Do you live in Kansas or Alabama? If you answered yes to either of these questions, then you have to read this book. Of course, your location doesn't matter, but this book will hit even harder if you are currently living in Kansas (more to come on that later).

This book starts with a history of voting rights for black Americans. This covers Jim Crow laws, lynching, socially making sure black people can't vote, changing laws to make sure black people can't vote, and so many illegal things done by politicians. The book gives that false sense of security that this epidemic is over, until chapter two. The rest of the book really covers what has been happening in the modern "post-racism" society. The society where Trump got elected and he cried that he should have gotten more votes if it weren't for voter fraud that was never found. The world of Kobach literally going against the constitution and moral logic in his voter laws in Kansas (even more on this later, I promise). This book will not sit well with you if you see black people as people, you know the whole they deserve equal rights thing that is so complicated for so many people to understand. If you value democracy, then this book will hurt. 

The book details constant law breaking by politicians in power to disenfranchise people of color and poor people from being able to vote. This book just made me sick. It was like watching a kid torture an animal while laughing and getting praised for doing in. It was horrifying and it needs to be read by more people. The more support that can be given to making sure everyone can vote, the better the country will be. Right now there are too many politicians that control things in a way that guarantees their victory or the victory of their friends with no regard for what that means for the people in that state. There is a lovely section on Roy Moore, which happened so recently that it is still on so many minds. An accused serial pedophile was running for office AND ALMOST WON. How has America sunk so low that someone who hurts children repeatedly become the person that gets a fancy office and more power to hurt children? Part of that is because of the voting laws that make is so thousands to millions of people are not able to vote, part of it is a lack of good education in that state. Both of which can be controlled by the people in power, but people with no education will follow like sheep if they can even figure out how to vote. So why would the people in power fix the issues when it gives them ultimate power?

Kobach's reign of terror over Kansas voters was described in such great detail throughout the book. It gets so graphic that I can't imagine anyone even considering voting for him for governor since he has such little regard for people. I only wish that this book could have been pushed back a few months to detail his morally bankrupt running for governor where he is controlling all the recounts and magically pulling ahead in the polls. I would also like to note that Kobach has demanded that the state of Kansas pay all of his court costs and fees for when he was sued for his unconstitutional voting laws and then his contempt of court fees too when he refused to listen to court orders. All things that happened that this book misses, but only  because the book in being released in two weeks. I would also like to note that trans people were/are also in jeopardy of not being able to vote in Kansas due to the unconstitutional laws that Kobach started and the way that one has to apply to change gender markers in Kansas. While trans rights are not the point of this book, it felt like it was a good point to mention to show that Kobach goes after all minorities if he can, making him that much more of a slime. 

This is a book you need to read. No matter your background, no matter your political views, this book will point out so many things that are so important. Things that range from politicians consistently lie about voter fraud despite having no proof and this ranges from Trump to Kobach to the Jim Crow politicians. If you get nothing else, hopefully it gives you a healthy distrust of those in power and gives you enough pause to fact check what is being told to you by politicians more than you did before.
I read Carol Anderson's first book White Rage and that was an awesome book. This book, One Person, No Vote is a must read. Given the current state of affairs, every person that votes needs to read this book. It highlights how only one side (Republicans) have diligently worked to suppress and compromise the votes of many American citizens. It is horrible what has been done to deny so many Americans their lawful and constitutional right to vote. And this all done to maintain absolute and total power for the super elite in this country.