The Real Racists Oppose Voter ID

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There is no intellectually sound argument against having proper ID to vote – which is quite predictably why the American Left must resort to emotional demagoguery to fight it. Equally unsurprising, playing the race card is their most reliable vehicle for doing so. Yet stunning testimony against North Carolina’s election laws reveal that it is leftists themselves who are willing (http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/10/20/Justice-Department-Expert-Witness-Blacks-less-sophisticated) to disparage black Americans and Hispanics to pursue their agenda.
According to expert witnesses retained by the Justice Department (DOJ) and, yes, the NAACP, it is racist to assume minorities can be treated like everyone else – because they are “less sophisticated.”
http://patriotpost.us/articles/30358

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Political scientist Charles Stewart was retained by the DOJ, and when asked if the elimination of same-day registration and voting in North Carolina affected black Americans disproportionately, he didn’t hesitate:

“[I]t would empirically more likely affect African Americans. Also, understanding within political science, that people who register to vote the closer and closer one gets to Election Day tend to be less sophisticated voters, tend to be less educated voters, tend to be voters who are less attuned to public affairs. That also tells me from the literature of political science that there are likely to be people who will end up not registering and not voting. People who correspond to those factors tend to be African Americans, and, therefore, that’s another vehicle through which African Americans would be disproportionately affected by this law.”
The rest of Stewart’s testimony can be found here, but it should be abundantly clear the soft bigotry of low expectations is alive and well at the DOJ. That would be the same DOJ run by our execrable Attorney General Eric Holder, who once admonished America for being a “nation of cowards” when it comes to discussing race. Can anyone imagine what Holder’s reaction would be if that discussion began with the assumption that black Americans have inferior levels of education, sophistication and awareness? And even if one assumes that one of those elements, namely education, is legitimate, would it be indelicate to point out that millions of black Americans are being educationally shortchanged in cities like New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Detroit and Philadelphia – everyone of which are longtime Democrat strongholds?