Rev. Al Sharpton, keynoting a congressman’s event on voting rights, said voter ID laws are simply an evolution of Jim Crow laws.
“Decades ago, African-Americans battled ‘Jim Crow’ laws aimed at keeping us from the polls,” Sharpton said. “Now, we’re fighting ‘James S. Crow Jr. Esquire.’ He talks in a more refined way … but the result is the same.”
The voting rights symposium was hosted Friday by Rep. William Lacy Clay (D-Mo.) at Harris-Stowe State University in St. Louis. It included Congressional Black Caucus Chairman Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) and Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Wisc.), as well as state legislators and representatives from the NAACP and DNC.
“Junior’s a little more polished than his daddy, a little more educated, he talks in a refined way,” Sharpton continued. “But the results and the goals are the same. Jim Crow said ‘I’m going to have a poll tax…I’m going to ask you how many bubbles in a bar of soap’. James Crow Jr. is too smart for that. He says ‘You have to have a government-issued photo I.D’.”
The organizers are trying to keep a Missouri constitutional amendment from being passed, which would work around a 2006 state supreme court ruling that declared a previous photo ID law to be unconstitutional.
“Nothing in our constitution is more fundamental than the right to vote,” Clay said. “Across this country, in 38 states, that right is under assault.Up to five million registered voters are at risk of being disenfranchised. Right here in Missouri, our Secretary of State reports that 254,000 registered voters are at risk of being turned away from the polls because they lack a government-issued photo ID. Another 100,000 Missouri voters have expired photo IDs. And that’s just a small example of what is happening across this country.”
At a retirement home in a video uploaded yesterday, Clay said it was not a racial issue but one that could disproportionately affect seniors.
“It impacts the disabled community,” Clay said. “Those who may be paraplegic, or quadriplegic, or may be blind. I’d be very concerned if a blind person had a driver’s license.
I’m getting pretty tired of the race-baiters and hustlers. Note that not one of them, including the Race-baiter-in-chief, is doing anything to ensure that people have the proper id. Absolutely nothing!!!!! All they do is criticize, they don’t do anything to correct the problem. They aren’t even leading from behind on this.
I bet in 30 to 60 days they racists and idiots could fan through the community and help everyone that doesn’t have a valid photo id actually get one. But they don’t Are the Al Sharptons of this country too stupid to do that? Or are they using race to ensure that they can steal an election? I say it’s the latter.
Their interest isn’t in ensuring *PEOPLE* actually get to vote, but in ensuring that *VOTES FOR THE RIGHT PEOPLE* are counted. They are protecting their ability to commit election fraud.
I’d love for Al Sharpton or any like-minded person explain to me why they think blacks and other minorities are unable to obtain photo id.
NAACP, Congressional Black Caucus, et al can only remain relevant by making outrageous statements and affrontery. By doing this, they guarantee their continued existence and money flow.
They have long ago been co-opted by the marxist/leninist fellow travelers in the USA…need proof? Look at most of their key note speakers and adored icons (Malcolm X, Elijah Mohammed, Rev. Wright, Stoakley Carmichael, Angela Davis, Van Jones, Al Sharpton, Rev. Jackson, CRT – Critical Race Theory…the list is endless).
http://therealrevo.com/blog/?p=70094
This is May 1, 2012′s celebration. Cinco de Maio is another! How do these entities espouse the US Constitution while aligning themselves with hard core marxist/leninstas? Cake and eat it, too syndrome…must be. Yep, suckle on government and deep pocketed entities while filling their coffers.
We The People must recognize these efforts by the far left for what they are, fruitless pursuits for the collpase of Our USA…trouble is, these same people have awoken a sleeping giant and We The People have yet begun to fight these vermin. God Bless America. Amen.
– what does the acronym NAACP shorten?