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Voting. but what pancredo said is remarkable. most of the people who voted for barack obama were white. when you talk about literacy tests are you saying those people did not have the right to exercise one person one vote? i think it's part of thinking of using the buzz words, literacy test, that implies blacks because blacks have been denied that right. i think tom pancredo needs to read the constitution and think about what he means because there are a lot of black, white, and brown citizens all over america who have worked very hard to earn the right to vote and to tell them they are not ca...

if you were black, the test was designed purely to afford a legalistic veneer of justification for denying you your constitutional right to vote. the questions weren't about abcs they were questions like this one from alabama's literacy test in 1965. if a person charged with treason denies his guilt, how many persons must testify against him before he can be convicted? do you consider yourself qualified to vote in this country? can you answer that question? want to hear it again? if a person is charged with treason and denies his guilt, how many persons must testify against him before he ca...

Organizers of the convention say, can it involve into a main stream political force, does it even want to? >> yeah. it's not clear that it does. i mean look, they had -- you heard some pretty controversial remarks from tom tankrado about immigrants, people needing a literacy test to vote at the start of this whole weekend. there is a fringe element here that is interested in questions of immigration or race and others who are more concerned with fiscal responsibility, balancing the budget, a whole libertarian wing in there. to the extent that they have to sort out these different groupings and...

Sponsors and two members of congress to speak at the event, congresswoman michele bachmann and a sarah blackburn pulled out. sarah palin is to speak tomorrow. he's reportedly paid a six-figure fee to do so. the opening speech by failed presidential candidate ex-congressman and anti-immigrant tom tancredo who started the event off with a bang, a big, loud, racist bang. >> mostly because i think we do not have a civics literacy test before people can vote in this country, people who could not even spell the word vote or say it in english put a committed

Sponsors and two members of congress due to speak. michele bachmann and marcia blackburn bailed out. sarah palin is due to address the conference tomorrow. the opening speech last night was given by failed presidential candidate, tom tancredo. >> mostly because i think we do not have a civics literacy test before people can vote in the country. people who could not even spell the word, vote, or say it in english -- put a committed,