Sean Leong - Public blog

My post yesterday about literacy tests for voter registration reminded me of how the republicans managed to convince  people a great organization like ACORN was a corrupt, pro-big-government, money-grubbing, fraudulent, anti-American, pinko, socialist, hippy-funded, anti-white, Muslim group out to buy the American election with persistent focus on a group of ground-level knuckle-heads and ignoring the record they had trying to get legitimate voters to the polls.

There will always be those who don’t say what they actually mean, (“I just don’t want black people to vote” would be honest at least) like a lot of these so-called mainstream pundits who latched onto every ACORN story as if it were the devil himself. Give Glenn Beck the Big Cojones Award for not hiding his race-baiting very well, he’s somehow managed to make racism in style again with mainstream America, how can normal people actually think he’s not talking about race when he attacks ACORN? When did Voter Registration equate to ELECTION TAMPERING? (hmmm, let me see, after the Emancipation Proclamation, when all of a sudden white people North AND South weren’t so concerned about equal democracy for all, afterall.)

In case you’re wondering, some of my best friends are white, I’m really not that angry at white people, really! : )

I don’t read/get to watch enough Rachel Maddow.  Here’s an interesting bit from Mediaite:  Enraged, Maddow Explains ‘Racist History’ Tea Party Is Embracing. I’m sure a lot of people would think it’s perfectly reasonable to make sure the electorate is “smart enough” to make informed decisions, but the history of voter registration and arcane registration requirements in the country have a funny way of excluding certain types of people. (And let’s put it this way, they weren’t illiterate or homeless, they were often just hard-working people of a certain color and socio-economic background.)

The article had a great link to a short primer on the history of US Voter “Literacy” tests in the South.

This is the last set of Qi sketches I could find:

Allison Farese:

Bethany :

I think that’s it! If I find any more pix I’ll post them.

Here’s another batch of the sketches I had from Qi, been procrastinating over this for too long.

This was Mark (above), and also below. They’re quite different because I always thought Mark had a really interesting head and face shape and I wanted to make that as geometric as possible and take it as far out of realism as possible. The drawing above is more “heroic” and the one below is more “goofy”.

Below is Dan (?). He was Amy’s direct supervisor in Altum and came to a few meetings with us and Biologic Matters.com.

Below are pix of Ruby, or at least Ruby’s hair in one case. The hair stayed in one place long enough to draw it, that one time and I should have tried to make it more finished even if it was just a sketch. P.S. Ruby – sorry! I know you don’t like the picture below, but I don’t think it’s that bad or unflattering.

Ah, the joys of long meetings…