WaPo writer: Black votes should count more than whites’

A writer for the Washington Post took to the op-ed pages to spell out his idea of racial reconciliation, circa 2015: Blacks should get weighted votes so they “count for 167 percent of everyone else’s,” he said.

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Why?

Because blacks are still given inferior political treatment when it comes to obtaining fair housing, education, criminal justice and employment, he said.

“This weighted vote, coupled with an increasingly active black electorate that in 2012 had a higher voter participation rate than whites for the first time in history, would offer African Americans an outsize influence on national and state elections,” wrote Theodore Johnson, a former White House fellow, the Daily Caller reported. “Politicians, finally, would have to truly compete for the black vote, or a substantial share of it, to attain or remain in office. This would provide an incentive, even for purely self-interested politicians, to prioritize African American policy concerns and act on them, or face a loss at the polls.”

He tossed aside the “one person, one vote” in place in America, saying the “precise legal meaning of that phrase is still unclear,” he wrote.

He also cited statistics indicating blacks are at a disadvantage when it comes to obtaining “access to fair housing and living wages” and their wealth rates are stuck at “essentially the same levels of disparity today as … in 1963,” he wrote.

“These are national issues that require policy solutions – and the political will to implement them, which clearly doesn’t yet exist,” Johnson wrote. “That’s why reparations should be apportioned in the exercise of a civil right (a duty, even) long denied to the descendants of the enslaved. A five-thirds compromise would imbue African Americans with a larger political voice that could be used to fight the structural discrimination expressed in housing, education, criminal justice and employment.”

He went on: “Allowing black votes to count for 167 percent of everyone else’s would mean that 30 million African American votes would count as 50 million, substituting super-votes for the implausible idea of cash payments.”