bonus post

[rkt]

http://belladonnalin.livejournal.com/844336.html

belladonnalin wrote a most-excellent voter disenfranchisement post. she beat me to mine, a variation of which does exist out there.
but hers is awesome

5 million Americans are expected to be banned from voting because of a felony conviction in the 2008 elections.

According to the Human Rights Watch, more than 1.9 million of those will be black men. That 1.9 million represents more than 13% of the total population of adult black men and more than 1/3 of the total number of adults banned from voting.

According to the HRW, as of 1998, ten states disenfranchise more than one in five adult black men; in seven of these states, one in four black men is permanently disenfranchised.