Posted on 12/30/2011 7:02:36 PM PST by Comrade Brother Abu Bubba
Holder's Racial Politics
Eric Holder must be amazed that President Obama was elected and he could become Attorney General. That's a fair inference after the Attorney General last Friday blocked South Carolina's voter ID law on grounds that it would hurt minorities. What a political abuse of law.
In a letter to South Carolina's government, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Thomas Perez called the state law—which would require voters to present one of five forms of photo ID at the polls—a violation of Section 5 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Overall, he noted, 8.4% of the state's registered white voters lack photo ID, compared to 10% of nonwhite voters.
This is the yawning chasm the Justice Department is now using to justify the unprecedented federal intrusion into state election law, and the first denial of a "pre-clearance" Voting Rights request since 1994.
The 1965 Voting Rights Act was created to combat the systematic disenfranchisement of minorities, especially in Southern states with a history of discrimination. But the Justice position is a lead zeppelin, contradicting both the Supreme Court and the Department's own precedent. In 2005, Justice approved a Georgia law with the same provisions and protections of the one Mr. Holder nixed for South Carolina. In 2008, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Crawford v. Marion County Election Board that an Indiana law requiring photo ID did not present an undue burden on voters.
As African-American men at the most exalted reaches of government, Messrs. Obama and Holder are a testament to how much racial progress the country has made. It's a shame to see them pretending little has changed so they can scare up some votes
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Blacks, as a whole, are the most racist people in the country. They are led by the two biggest racists in govt, obozo and holder.
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.
Obama is such a miserable failure, worse than Carter, that the ONLY way he can win is to steal this election. AG Holder is doing all he can to help. If he succeeds, this will mark the beginning of the end of America and lawlessness will break out all over this nation as those who have had the election stolen from them will NOT be in a mood to accept this blatant assault on our republic. Revolution now!
Ummm, Obama democrats ARE encouraging voter fraud... Traditionally fraud comes out of black precincts.
-——lawlessness will break out all over this nation———
The problem is that lawlessness exists now.
There is no law, therefore there can be no lawlessness.
Obama et al have chosen to avoid following the law and merely say it is whatever we say it is.
The breakout and revolution will be law restorative.
I don’t believe you have to show id in Ohio. The Bill didn’t pass. I know there seems to be a lot of confusion about it, and it was often a topic on Ohio talk radio.
http://www.cleveland.com/nation/index.ssf/2011/07/voter_id_proposal_for_ohio_dea.html
He will stall.
The KKK started in Indiana and is still strong in some counties.
In Indiana photo ID from state colleges was accepted in last election. IN went for BO. If you look at a map the counties he carried were those around the state universities. Out of state students were registered in the voter registration drives. Hopefully it is corrected this go around.
I disagree.
When a black presidential candidate receives 99 per cent of the black vote, then there has been no progress.
Initiative #27 passed by a 63% to 38% margin this past November. It amended the Mississippi Constitution to require voters to submit a government issued photo identification before being allowed to vote; provides that any voter lacking government issued photo identification may obtain photo identification without charge from the Mississippi Department of Public Safety.
World ends. Minorities to be hurt most.
Voter ID passes. Minorities to be hurt most by inability to vote twice.
President converts to Islam. Minorities rounded up.
Do you mean under different names?
(Sheriff Joe Arpaio) understands all to well how this un-constitutional action works under this Crooked AG. and his boss, Obama.
Are they saying that 10% of minorities in the state are probably working, purchasing alcohol, obtaining guns, and operating a vehicle without a valid ID? And NOW, they want these same folks to be able to VOTE???? LOL.
Meaning that Mississippi is Holder's next target...
Funny you should say that.
Because that's what Barry Goldwater said, too. And, since, Section 5 did not apply to all states, Goldwater voted against the Voting Rights Act.
The Johnson administration labelled his act "racist"...and the black vote has belonged to the Democrats ever since.
Ironic, isn't it, that the black vote should take umbrage at a man who wanted Section 5 to be applied in Illinois as well as Mississippi?
Holder needs to go.
He is a criminal on numerous counts and he does not deserve any government job, even a shoveler. He deserves bars.
Your right to vote on collective bargaining agreements is carefully “check” by the compulsory union prior to exercising that right. They first make very certain you are a ‘card-carrying’ member. Shows the hypocrisy of the left on this particular issue. As a college teacher but non-union employee I am barred from voting on the very contract governing my job. The union runs the HR dept. They check and “know” exactly who is paying the union dues aka Democrat tithe - and who isn’t, prior to exercising the right to vote.
So much for the ‘injustice’ of carding voting members of a collective.
“Do they think we are stupid? (...uh, never mind)”
Problem is, we ARE stupid.
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