Growing number of black leaders embrace voter ID, reject Biden's Jim Crow claims
By: John Solomon
African Americans are rebelling against the democrat party and its soft bigotry of low expectations. Voter ID is a completely reasonable expectation of every citizen. It’s time to move the MLB all star game back to Atlanta.
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Growing number of black leaders embrace voter ID, reject Biden's Jim Crow claims
From sports to politics to business, black leaders are beginning a counteroffensive against Stacey Abrams' views on voting
Mark Robinson knows a thing or two about the political appeal of voter ID. After all, he became North Carolina's first ever African-American lieutenant governor last November running as a Republican who vowed to restore voter identification for the state's elections.
And he won, even as the GOP's top of the ticket fell to Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper.
So Robinson chafes when he hears national Democrats like Joe Biden and Stacey Abrams claim that asking for an ID to vote is as disenfranchising as the voter suppression tactics of the Jim Crow era.
"That black people can't get an ID to vote — and quite frankly, a free ID, which the government has offered, to vote — is just absolute nonsense," Robinson told Just the News earlier this month. "And I reject that wholeheartedly. And I believe most of the people of North Carolina do as well."
It isn't just North Carolina. Voters nationwide overwhelmingly support voter ID as an election integrity measure.
A Just the News-Scott Rasmussen poll in January found a whopping 77% of Americans support mandatory voter ID, including 70% of Democrats and 72% of African-Americans.
Ken Blackwell, Ohio's first African-American secretary of state, said the news media and some corporations have wrongly twisted the narrative and made something that is popular in Georgia's new election integrity law look racist. But he predicts it will backfire.
"You have the mainstream media, you know, initially trying to gaslight the American people, making those of us who see this as a very common-sense practical policy and procedure to be somewhat crazy or racist, and we're not buying it," Blackwell told Just the News.
"And look, this is what Major League Baseball, Coca Cola and Delta need to understand — that the American people are not going to sit back and take ... the labeling of common-sense practice and ordinary hard-working people as being racist," he added. "Too many people have put too much on the line to make sure that the integrity of our election system is in fact protected."
Former NFL star Burgess Owens, now a freshman congressman from Utah, testified last week before the Senate , fighting back against President Biden's claims that voter ID laws are "Jim Crow in the 21st century."
"What I find extremely offensive is the narrative from the left that Black people are not smart enough, not educated enough, not desirous enough of education to do what every other culture and race does in this country: get an ID," Owens testified. "True racism is this: It's the projection of the Democratic Party on my proud race. It's called the soft bigotry of low expectations."
After Georgia's election integrity law was first passed, Democrats led by the likes of Abrams blitzed the public with claims the law was racist. The initial blowback forced Major League Baseball to move its all-star game from Atlanta in protest.
But that move has boomeranged as it became clear the decision cost $100 million in revenues to Atlanta's mostly black business community.
On Monday, a billboard will confront MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred with a demand to return the game to Atlanta and criticizing baseball's initial move as "all strikes & no balls."
Meanwhile, African-American leaders who support voter ID have belatedly ramped up their own voices to counter the liberal criticisms and defend laws like Georgia's.
Former football star Herschel Walker — viewed by some as a possible 2022 Senate candidate in Georgia — joined the chorus, saying the focus should be on getting black voters ID and not on criticizing the law.
"My grandfather today, if he was alive, would be 117 years old," Walker told Just the News last week . "He had a driver’s license. In today's world, you have to have an ID to do anything."
One of the biggest pushbacks came last week in an op-ed published by Real Clear Politics in which a half dozen African-American leaders claimed the black community supports voter ID but the issue has been hijacked by white liberals.
"The data seems clear: A majority of Black Americans support voter ID laws," the op-ed argued. Yet, they claim, "opportunistic activists like Stacey Abrams pretend the entire Black community stands behind them and the radical Democrat Party," crafting a narrative in which black people "are either opposed to voter ID or, even more offensively, that Blacks are incapable of obtaining IDs."
"Elites, most of whom are white," they wrote, "have enabled them, taking it upon themselves to determine who the 'leaders' of the Black community are and ignoring anyone else who suggests differently."
The chorus of black voices keeps growing. Vernon Jones, a former Democrat, is now running for Georgia governor as a Republican and argues the state's new voter law is essential to protect real black voters from having their ballots nullified by cheaters.
Robinson, the North Carolina governor, believes the argument that voting comes with the responsibility to ensure all lawful-only votes count is beginning to win the debate.
"I truly believe the number one thing that we need to do is to continue to preach the gospel that in order to secure our elections in order to maintain the integrity to vote, we need voter ID," he said.
"That's number one. Number two, I believe that we need to help people to understand — and this is something that I have come to understand myself — yes, we have a right to vote, but we also have a responsibility to do due diligence."
Read...and learn...
Did you read and learn anything from the seeded article?
He might have learned something, but his article had nothing to do with what was seeded.
What about all the down ticket republicans that did well in the 2020 election. Were those all skewed too ?
That's convenient.
If I may add.
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When the left can't rebut anything in a source they don't like, the first instinct is to attack the source.
You have good first instincts.
Then you really should learn to read, because the article has already been rebutted. Or did you just skip over that part from MrFrost?
If the source is posting fake news, that's exactly what should happen.
So what part of this article is fake?
Be specific and show a counter article that meets your needs.
OK...How about YOU show from that article what had to do with what was seeded.
The article dealt with specifically black voters, ID to vote and the claim of Jim Crowe in Georgia.
Frost linked something dealing with voter fraud in general.
He did nothing that debunked the original seed.
This “argument?”: Pointless.
This is a notice that comments have been removed from this thread as having no value.
That’s not a counter argument.
A harbinger of things to come. There is a growing movement to allow non-citizen residents to vote in local elections; particularly municipal elections and school elections. As suffrage for undocumented migrants increases, the influence of that voting block on city government and school referendums will increase. And it's only a small step to extend voting rights for undocumented migrants to state government with modest amendments to state constitutions.
Illegal immigration poses a threat to the political influence of the Black population. It shouldn't be surprising that Black politicians will begin looking at election security as a way to protect the political influence of Black voters. The Black population isn't the largest minority group in the United States any longer.
I don’t know about the rest of the county, but I needed ID to get my Covid vaccination. So by the anti-voter-ID way of thinking, minorities can’t get vaccinated either.
"What I find extremely offensive is the narrative from the left that Black people are not smart enough, not educated enough, not desirous enough of education to do what every other culture and race does in this country: get an ID," Owens testified. "True racism is this: It's the projection of the Democratic Party on my proud race. It's called the soft bigotry of low expectations."
True racism is this: Republican " legislators had requested data on voting patterns by race and, with that data in hand, drafted a law that would "target African-Americans with almost surgical precision," the court said.
It's not the Democrat party claiming that black Americans are " not smart enough, not educated enough, not desirous enough of education" to get an ID, it's Republicans specifically targeting those communities they know tend to vote Democrat and adding ID requirements in an effort to disenfranchise them. There is no other reason for these new voter ID laws when the facts show there to be virtually no voter fraud occurring so the Republican excuses of why we need these laws are completely dishonest and full of holes. If there was some evidence of widespread voter fraud then perhaps there would be a reason to add voter ID laws that we haven't had in America since our founding. But there isn't and they know it so they have to fall back on the old "Well Democrats must think blacks are incapable of getting ID's which is why they protest to our adding these new laws". Total unadulterated bullshit. It's sad to see some of these Republican black leaders falling for this bullshit narrative, but they are the exception and are apparently happy to repeat the lies of the Republican leadership, a leadership who was caught red handed as the courts found, but they don't apparently have any problem with that which makes me question their conclusions and ask what they're getting in return for their compliance.
There is no valid reason NOT to have Voter ID.
Unless some partisan scoundrels are lookin' to cheat and game the system
There are dozens of valid reasons why someone might not have a valid ID. Many States won't renew your license if you have outstanding parking tickets, should that be a reason why you're stripped of your right to vote? Some folks are disabled and live dozens of miles from the nearest DMV and don't drive anyway so find it too much of a hassle to keep renewing a photo ID, should they be stripped of their right to vote? Some folks have had moving violations or DUI's which suspended their license and the thousands of dollars to take the classes and pay the fines were too much for them to afford right now, should that be a reason they should be stripped of their right to vote? I had a roommate who had a DUI accident 7 years ago, he couldn't afford the fines at the time and so started taking the bus to work and gave up driving, he just got his license back this last summer since he got a new job that required it and finally paid off the $2500 in DMV fines, should he have his right to vote stripped because of that?
There is no valid reason to require a photo ID to vote. Those who use the bogus excuse of voter fraud have been incapable of proving it so there simply is no reason to require it unless you're trying to disenfranchise eligible voters you know tend to vote for a political party you oppose.
I have been wondering how long the black community would put up with the racist white liberals who say black people can't get ID
Who really are the ones who say black Americans can't get ID?
Republican " legislators had requested data on voting patterns by race and, with that data in hand, drafted a law that would "target African-Americans with almost surgical precision," the court said.
It's not the Democrats. Republicans are the ones who researched who are most likely not to have valid ID's and then created their laws to specifically target those they felt were most likely to vote for Democrats. Don't kid yourself, this has nothing to do with voter fraud as some dip shits and liars claim, it has everything to do with Republicans trying desperately to disenfranchise eligible voters who they know are more likely to vote for their political opponents.