black Americans at being portrayed as helpless chi

Photo ID Laws: Welcome Back, Jim Crow?

Where is the righteous indignation among black Americans at being portrayed as helpless children?


Only Democrats can get away with implying that blacks are too lazy, ignorant, or stupid to go down to the local DMV and obtain a driver’s license or non-driver photo ID card.

Voter ID laws, designed to protect the integrity of the voting process, have been a hot topic in recent years. Politico reports that so-called civil rights groups have accused Texas Governor Rick Perry of signing a “strict” voter ID law that discriminates against blacks and Hispanics. Under the previous law, voters were allowed to show documents like utilities bills, bank statements, and paycheck stubs if they didn’t have photo ID. The new law takes effect on January 1.

Is the Texas law discriminatory because it applies only to blacks and Hispanics? Or does the local DMV bar these groups from applying for driver’s licenses or non-driver photo ID cards? Is their application fee higher than everyone else’s? Perhaps blacks and Hispanics are disproportionately averse to posing for bad photos that add 20 pounds.

Judith Browne Dianis, co-director of the Advancement Project, said in a statement that the Texas law is “part of the largest legislative effort to turn back the clock on voting rights in our nation in over a century.” Dianis, who is black, alluded to America’s favorite corpse, Jim Crow, a system of government-approved racial segregation.

You may recall from history books that certain states tried to prevent black Americans from exercising their right to vote. NAACP president Benjamin Jealous implied, with a straight face, that requiring blacks to show photo ID was akin to requiring them to pay poll taxes or take literacy tests. The president of a national organization purportedly concerned about the dignity of “colored people” perpetuates the idea that grown black men and women can’t and shouldn’t be expected to get off their butts, go to the DMV, and obtain a government-issued photo ID (for free in some cases).

Even more bizarre, black lawmakers in Georgia walked out of the Capitol in 2005 after their colleagues passed a voter ID law. By staging such a spectacle, they sent the message that blacks are not responsible enough to fulfill state requirements like everybody else.

According to a study from the New York University School of Law, reports the Washington Post, a quarter of black voters don’t have a valid government-issued photo ID, compared with eight percent of whites. But a racial disparity is not evidence of racial discrimination. There are no laws preventing these voters from obtaining a valid government-issued photo ID.

[Dev]

Wait, so does this law actually only apply to blacks and mexicans? I'm confused

[hvp05]

The ACLU says...

[V]oters of color are disproportionately less likely to possess the required forms of identification and do not have the same access to those forms of identification (or to the “free” election identification certificate, for that matter) as their White counterparts.

Is it possible to have a weaker argument than this? What does this even mean? Are folks being intimidated or physically prevented from entering DMV centers?


The oppressive, humiliating, discriminatory process of obtaining a state ID consists of this:

• Locate the Driver License Office nearest you, as you will have to apply for the ID card in person. You cannot apply online.
• Complete the Application for Texas Driver License form
• Bring proper identification. You will be asked to present two pieces of primary identification and one piece of secondary identification.
• Pay the ID card application fee, currently $15.00, for those under age 60 and $5.00 for those above 60, Confirm the exact fee with your local Driver License Office.

[Mongo53]

The Politics of Victimhood, the subjects of the article that push these ridiculous, insulting, premises about minorities, divide up the whole world as victimes or victimizers, and they view everything through that lense.

So, they are so myopic they don't even realize how racist they are when they are argue a policy change is victimizing someone, because you can't expect them to be as industrous, informed and proactive as other races.

When you see people that decide things emotionally, absolutely contrary to the facts, siding with the obvious bad guy over the good guy, siding with a racist or insulting premise, look at it from politically correct victim vs victimizer angle, that is how they are deciding this stuff in such an idiotic manner.