Voting in America: Still Separate and Unequal?

Lynne Serpe writes: "How could there be such a glaring disparity between the white and black sections of Cuyahoga County in the distribution of provisional ballots? And why would so many African Americans wait for up to ten hours in some instances to vote using provisional ballots instead of regular ballots? ... By looking only for provable fraud, and not investigating the obvious question why minority voters and white voters had extremely different experiences on Election Day, [newspaper] editors — and each of us — are choosing to accept as a given that when minority voters receive second-class status, it is not really news... That is indeed a sad commentary for a country that purports to be ready to support the development of democracy in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Ukraine. Fifty years after Rosa Parks took a stand, I guess it is still okay if some of us ride in the back of the bus."