美国有线新闻 CNN 2013-06-30

 Now it¡¯s a fightfor freedom. And I did not have grandchildren of mine; I had a grandmother ofmine. I wanted her, after having lived all these years, to have at least thefinal years, where she could be treated with dignity and respect.

Banarr Lafayettewasn¡¯t just fighting for the future. He was fighting for the past. Lafayettewas one of the thousands of men and women who rallied together to help pressurethe government to pass the 1965 voting rights act. I¡¯m Tommy Andres. Welcome toCNN Radio News Day.

Nearly 50 yearsafter the passage of this ground-breaking civil rights legislation, we hear thestories of two of the men whose names will forever be tied to in the historybooks. And what it means - to have a change.

We¡¯ve seen theMartin King, one of the most brilliant men, and one of the greatest men of thiscountry, but this society hasn¡¯t change enough to truly accept what he foughtfor. Only the victims have a right to say that things have changed enough toget rid of it.

President Johnsonsends to Congress a bill to reinforce the right to vote. But Attorney GeneralNicholas cuts in back. The president signs in an accompanying letter to thelegislators, urging swift passage for the bill that will outlaw¹ thediscriminatory practices. Then the Attorney General briefed the press on thesecond features of the bill. It will give his office the power to appointFederal registrars² in six southern states, where literacy and other boarderqualification tests are required.

Times have changed.You can hear in this sort of news clips about the signing of the 1965 votingrights act. And today the Supreme³ Court ruled that the change has been bigenough to move away from that law. The voting rights act that passed nearly 50years ago required nine states and several counties, whether with a history ofracism, to get any changes to their voting laws approved by the US government,in short, that¡¯ll oversight⁴ elections. Now the Supreme Court didn¡¯t strike downthe heart of the law, and on paper, that¡¯ll oversight remains⁵, that¡¯s calledSection 5. But the court ruled a different section, Section 4, isunconstitutional. That¡¯s the section that names the states¡¯ and counties¡¯cupboard by the law. But CNN¡¯s legal analyst⁶ Jeffery Tuben says, the law ispretty much powerless now.

What that means inpractice, is that the other part of the law - Section 5, which says thosestates have to be in supervision⁷ that is dormant⁸. That doesn¡¯t matter anymoreuntil and unless Congress goes back and comes up with a modern formula.

So as Tuben says,it¡¯s now up to Congress to figure out whether or not the formula should berewritten. And today Wolf Blitzer joined the course of CNN analyst who saidthat probably won¡¯t happen.

Politically, Ithink, it¡¯s unlikely that given the current makeup⁹ of the House ofRepresentatives, for example, it¡¯s very unlikely they will go ahead andreinstate some of these provisions from the 1965 voting rights act that werestruck down.

The end of LCPwasn¡¯t to have with the ruling, as you might expect. Here is what SharalonIphone, a lawyer for the group said after the announcement:

This is a criticalissue of democracy; this speaks to the very core of American values. Thisdecision by the court today is a game-changer, and leaves virtually unprotectedminority voters and communities all over this country.

Now since it¡¯s beenkicked back to Congress the issue will be largely a political one now, one thatwill likely come to ahead right around mid-term elections in November. But forthe men and women fought for the voting rights at in the first place, it¡¯s muchmore than politics. In a recent article titled Veterans Have Forgotten VotingWill Come at a Cost, CNN.com writer John Blake looks at the fact to get tovote. It features people like Banarr Lafayette who, at 22 years old, was beatenjust for registering black voters in the South. Lafayette recounts the momenthe decided¹⁰ change was necessary.

1 outlaw   

n.歹徒，亡命之徒；vt.宣布…为不合法

参考例句：

• The outlaw hid out in the hills for several months.逃犯在山里隐藏了几个月。
• The outlaw has been caught.歹徒已被抓住了。

2 registrars   

n.主管注册者( registrar的名词复数 )；记录者；登记员；注册主任

参考例句：

• Authorization Code is required when attempting to transfer a domain between registrars. 当域名要转移注册商时需要授权代码。 来自互联网
• Only IATF registrars are authorized to conduct the surveillance audit. 仅仅IATF登记官被授权进行监视审计。 来自互联网

3 supreme   

adj.极度的，最重要的；至高的，最高的

参考例句：

• It was the supreme moment in his life.那是他一生中最重要的时刻。
• He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。

4 oversight   

n.勘漏，失察，疏忽

参考例句：

• I consider this a gross oversight on your part.我把这件事看作是你的一大疏忽。
• Your essay was not marked through an oversight on my part.由于我的疏忽你的文章没有打分。

5 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。

6 analyst   

n.分析家，化验员；心理分析学家

参考例句：

• What can you contribute to the position of a market analyst?你有什么技能可有助于市场分析员的职务？
• The analyst is required to interpolate values between standards.分析人员需要在这些标准中插入一些值。

7 supervision   

n.监督，管理

参考例句：

• The work was done under my supervision.这项工作是在我的监督之下完成的。
• The old man's will was executed under the personal supervision of the lawyer.老人的遗嘱是在律师的亲自监督下执行的。

8 dormant   

adj.暂停活动的；休眠的；潜伏的

参考例句：

• Many animals are in a dormant state during winter.在冬天许多动物都处于睡眠状态。
• This dormant volcano suddenly fired up.这座休眠火山突然爆发了。

9 makeup   

n.组织；性格；化装品

参考例句：

• Those who failed the exam take a makeup exam.这次考试不及格的人必须参加补考。
• Do you think her beauty could makeup for her stupidity?你认为她的美丽能弥补她的愚蠢吗？

10 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。