Back in the days of Jim Crow in the states of the old confederacy, the former enslaved population was denied the right to vote by literacy tests, and poll taxes and if that wasn't enough there was always the KKK to intimidate and murder. Now it must seem to some like nothing has changed with the policy of felony convictions-for offenses that are non-violent-for a large number of black men who do not regain their franchise even after their debt has been paid, and the effort to deny blacks, poor and senior citizens voting rights due to failure to have a picture ID. That plus the fact that a number of black males have been openly murdered recently with no penalty for those who do the killing, that the image of the KKK can not be far away.
