In Raleigh North Carolina on Saturday the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) organized a march to protest voter-ID laws.
Protesters believe laws that require people to present photo ID at the voting booth have a chilling effect on some segments of voters, disenfranchising minority and poor voters. But the organizers required marchers to bring the photo-IDs they resist presenting at the polls. Does this mean the march itself is intended to restrict minorities and the poor?
The march, dubbed the “Moral March” by its leader Rev. William Barber II, who called for a “wave of civil disobedience” while railing against education cuts and the voter ID law, is the latest of a series of protests held against the state’s GOP-controlled legislature. Over 900 “peaceful” and “non-violent” protesters have been arrested since the beginning of the state’s legislative session last January. Police have taken a handful of them into custody each week after they obstructed legislators within the capitol building.
Barber also drew criticism in January for labeling South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, the first African American to serve the state as a senator since 1881, a “ventriloquist’s dummy.”
“A ventriloquist can always find a good dummy,” Barber said, according to South Carolina’s The State. “[T]he extreme right wing down [in South Carolina] finds a black guy to be senator, and claims he’s the first black senator since Reconstruction and then he goes to Washington, D.C., and articulates the agenda of the Tea Party.
Chairman of the House Elections Committee and North Carolina Republican state Rep. David Lewis criticized the protesters for their “hypocrisy.”
The vast majority of North Carolinans support the state’s voter-ID law, according to a 2011 poll conducted by Elon University. 80 percent said they believed the law is fair to all voters.
#MoralMarch will protest NC's new "racist" #VoterID, but you're req'd to bring photo ID to the march. #ncpol pic.twitter.com/w14mzejdSn
— Stacey-SisterToldjah (@sistertoldjah) February 8, 2014
The ID requirement listed in the Moral March organization flyer apparently did not affect protester turnout.
Source: Daily Caller
Photo: James Willamor
We have Immigration Laws, they have not been Repealed. Use them. No Incumbents. They have not fired Obama.
I dont think that is Racist. It would be making Voting honest, no games like the last election brought out dishonesty.
It’s racist if you have something to hide.
Look. You need a photo ID for DOZENS of things in daily life. I’ve had to produce my photo ID to vote in Ohio for years. Never once complained or heard one. Anyone who argues to the contrary is making lame excuses for supporting voter fraud – plain and simple. Same as Obama’s birth certificate — if your status and your intentions are both legitimate then one why would you not just simply produce your documentation and put an end to all speculation –instantly! Opponents of IDs just want the ability to hide something or defraud the system. An off shoot of Chicago style politics where even dead people vote early and often!! You can’t give me a legit argument to the contrary that I could not shoot full of holes with a minute’s thought.
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they should have voter ID’s in all states, I don’t know what the hell this has to do with poor people and minorities…it is a fair law, if you are an illegal immigrant, you SHOULD NOT be allowed to vote