After 120 years, Alabamians to vote on stripping racist language from state constitution

[beschizza]

Originally published at: After 120 years, Alabamians to vote on stripping racist language from state constitution | Boing Boing

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[euansmith]

Let’s have a show of hands from everyone who disagrees with cleaning up the Alabama Constitution.

[Melizmatic]

Hope it passes, wont hold my breath though.

[gracchus]

reorganization effort is designed to make the document more user-friendly

Good choice of phrase. Calling it “more human-friendly” would no doubt have been upsetting to the state’s Republicans.

I would guess Mississippi is waiting for Alabama to complete this process before they do their own, so as to maintain the state’s “proud” record in such matters.

[Papasan]

But the “dixie swastika” is our heritage…

[Chuckles]

The guy on the right looks like PC Principal from South Park.

[Chuckles]

The proposed “slimmed down” version of the Alabama Const. would be 82 times as long as the U.S. Constitution.

Edit: Actually, the more accurate number would be 49 times as long. I didn’t originally count the amendments to the U.S. Const.

[chgoliz]

@beschizza

The new Constitution would shrink slightly to 373,274 words, but that is three times more words than the next-longest state constitution – Texas, according to an analysis from the PARCA.

What is it with red states and big government? They can never seem to get enough of government intrusion into their lives.

[IronEdithKidd]

Well, I mean, Big Government is just their dog-whistle for “government programs with proven high ROIs that actually help people” and by “people”, they mean “women and POC”.

[angusm]

The new Constitution would shrink slightly to 373,274 words, but that is three times more words than the next-longest state constitution – Texas …

The writers of the state Constitution weren’t just racist jerks, but wordy racist jerks.