worship the glitch

Colorado Republican Tom Tancredo, in his opening-night speech at the National Tea Party Convention (via TPM)

Literacy and civics test were used during the Jim Crow era to keep blacks from voting. Note that this is the same man who said Sonia Sotomayor was a member of the “Latino KKK” and who’s former speechwriter (for his failed presidential run) plead guilty to delivering a “karate chop” to a random black woman after calling her a nigger.