Former CBC Chair: GOP ‘Turning the Clock Back to the Days of Jim Crow’ With Voter ID Laws
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Rep. Barbara Lee accused Republicans Wednesday of "turning the clock back to the days of Jim Crow" with voter identification laws. (AP File Photo)
A Democratic congresswoman and former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus charged Republicans with “turning the clock back to the days of Jim Crow” in a fiery speech Wednesday decrying voter identification laws.
Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) said in a speech on the House floor that the GOP is trying to deny blacks the right to vote, saying “it’s no coincidence that a disproportionate number of these affected voters come from communities of color as well as the poor, the elderly and students,” The Hill reported.
“Having been born and raised in Texas, this certainly looks like a poll tax to me, which those of us remember as a way to prevent African Americans from voting. These voter ID laws have a partisan agenda: seeking to disenfranchise and deny specific populations of voters before they have the opportunity to elect their representatives in government,” Lee said.
Lee, a current member of the Congressional Black Caucus who served as its chair from 2009 to 2011, claimed voter ID laws would prevent 1 in 4 blacks from voting, and 1 in 5 Hispanics and Asian Americans. She said the laws are a return to voter suppression seen in the 2000 presidential election, according to The Hill.
“I came to this floor years ago, after the stolen presidential elections in Florida and Ohio, to protest the results of those two elections that were filled with voter suppression,” she said. “It worked for Republicans before, and so legislators in 42 states in this map of shame have doubled down on these strategies to make it harder for certain communities to vote.”
Lee is just the latest Democrat to invoke Jim Crow as an analogy: Over the summer, both former President Bill Clinton and Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused Republicans of trying to inciting a return to such laws. Lee herself also used the comparison last year when discussing Arizona’s immigration law.
Her comments also come one day after reports that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People believes there’s an effort underway to prevent black and Hispanic voters from participating in the 2012 presidential election.





















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waitin42012
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:50pmOnly people that have something to hide would object to showing an ID to vote. Just like the welfare recipients that don’t want to be drug tested to collect their money. If you aren’t doing drugs, then you have nothing to worry about. When I interview for a new job, I am drug tested. When I vote, I show my ID. Get over it already with the black thing – that ship has sailed a long time ago. I for one am SO OVER the racist accusations.
Report Post »PPMStudios
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:53pmYou ‘squarely’ hit that nail on the head!!
Great post!!
Report Post »Tracker2021
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:57pmOf course Debbie Wasserman, Bill Clinton, and Rep. Lee would envoke the “Jim Crow Laws”, concidering that it was “their” party that supported those laws. I just looked up hypocrite in the dictionary and it said…See the Democratic party. Strange..
Report Post »Tracker2021
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 5:01pmAlso her analogy about her 100 year old grandmother. How about you HELP your grandmother by locating where it is. How anyone can defend allowing people to vote without showing proof of who they are is astounding to me.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 5:02pmI‘m just a regular white guy and I’ve always had to show an ID to vote, you mean some people don’t? I’ve been discriminated against all my life? This is discrimination.
Report Post »ishka4me
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 5:10pmwhere i live, you have to live where you are registered and need a drivers license to vote. Are there places in the country where this int the law? I can’t see any descrimination of anybody by preventing fraud. The only people upset by this is acorn , seiu, occupy and other radical left wing groups.
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 5:14pmWeren’t Jim Crow laws a product of the Democrats?
Report Post »On The Bayou
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 5:19pmThe election is eleven months away, if you don`t have an ID you have plenty of time to get one. I live way out in the sticks and somehow I`ve got an ID. Been having one for fourty years. If grandma is 100 years and she wants four more years of Obama she needs to get downtown quick.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 5:23pmShe mocks the real nastyness of Jim Crow laws in order to make a point of faux suffering. What a mockery she is of a person.
Asking for ID is not Jim Crow. It denies nobody the right to vote, and states issue non-driver‘s license id’s, many even for free if you’re going to use them for voting purposes. And frankly, if you can’t take the time to get one, or you can’t cough up the 10 dollars it costs to get one in non-paying states, you probably have no business voting in the first place, lacking common sense and such. The only thing ID checking stops is my long dead Scottish great uncle Seamus from pulling a lever for BHO.
And this nasty little woman, knows it.
We are not impressed.
Report Post »ltb
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 5:24pmYes, ChiefGeorge, Democrats did enact Jim Crow laws in an attempt to regulate voting. Not only that…
Democrats fought to keep Republicans from freeing the slaves
Democrats fought to keep blacks out of the government in the South during Reconstruction
Democrats re-instituted segregation of federal agencies and the military under Wilson
Democrats interned Japanese under FDR
Democrats voted against civil rights legislation 80% of the time from 1933 through the 1960s
Democrats would have prevented passage of the Civil Rights Act if 80% of Republicans hadn’t supported it
But what did the most progressive president of the last century think about minorities? When Lyndon B. Johnson was talking to two governors about civil rights legislation, he said, “I’ll have those [n-word deleted] voting Democratic for the next 200 years.” Looks like he was right.
Report Post »Emrys
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 5:28pmMaybe one day she‘ll get off of the Democrat plantation and see what’s really going on in the world that she could be a part of if only she’d walk out of the fields.
Report Post »Vechorik
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 5:28pmI don’t mind voter ID at all — think it’s a wonderful idea.
Report Post »I DO OPPOSE NATIONAL ID due to loss of civil liberties as there’s no limit to the data that can be contained on one: gun ownership, etc.
ninja97
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 5:33pmRacist.
Report Post »flatdaddio
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 5:41pmI show my ID at the polls all the time and I’m proud to show it….
Report Post »KevINtampa
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 5:46pmThe racists are the ones spouting this BS.
What they are saying is this:
White people know how to apply for an ID. White people are not criminals, so they don‘t mind having to be ID’d. White people don’t typically have warrants for arrest, so showing ID is no big deal. White people are not suspect as either participant or unwilling witness in crime, so they carry ID.
So they are also saying this:
A large percentage of blacks and minorities are not intelligent enough to apply for a state ID. A large percentage of blacks and minorities are criminals, so they don‘t want to be ID’d. A large percentage of blacks and minorities have warrants for arrest, so showing ID is a big deal. Blacks and minorities are suspect as either participant or unwilling witness in crime, so they don’t carry ID.
Please tell how their position on having voter ID isn’t inferring the above. Please.
Report Post »TH30PH1LUS
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 5:48pmOakland, the den of rioters, looters, OWS felons, pyromaniacs. She is their representative.
Report Post »000degrees
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 5:49pmWhy don’t you help you family member to get the i d???? If it’s a tax then you should be all for it as a strong Democrat. I missed the part about voter suppression in Philadelphia with the new black panthers….she should not have yielded her time back and talked a little about that episode….
Report Post »Loveyourneighbor
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 5:50pmI have always had to provide ID before I voted, and the very first time I voted I had to provide proof of residency (a utility bill in my name). So how is it the non-white groups will be discriminated against.
Report Post »Besides,they most likely have ID because they have to provide it to get services or to get employment.
UP4THETRUTH
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 5:53pmTruer words were never spoken. As a black woman, I am beyond sick and tired of this race baiting crap. Go and pull your self-respect out of The Lost & Found box and act like an adult. I guess this woman wouldn’t have any problem if her local liquor store sold booze to her grandkid without asking for ID. People that have NOTHING to hide, hide NOTHING!!!
Report Post »KevINtampa
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 5:55pmThe real message here is: It‘s not fair because it makes it harder for us to have our groups vote twice and it can leave a trail of voter fraud directly to someone’s residence.
This isn’t inferring that blacks and minorities commit the fraud. Election saboteurs of all races and creeds are used to commit voter fraud;as well as use this race baiting agenda to make sure it’s easy to keep the fraud going.
Report Post »fatsomann
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 6:09pmDon’t welfare recipients have to show some sort of id? Birth certificate? Something?
Report Post »SANE_I think
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 6:21pmOBAMA’S LATEST, I JUST TRULY DISLIKE THIS PRES: In a speech delivered at Osawatomie High School in Osawatomie, Kansas, on Tuesday, President Barack Obama argued that while a limited government that preserves free markets “speaks to our rugged individualism” as Americans, such a system “doesn’t work” and “has never worked” and that Americans must look to a more activist government that taxes more, spends more and regulates more if they want to preserve the middle class.
“‘[T]here is a certain crowd in Washington who, for the last few decades, have said, let’s respond to this economic challenge with the same old tune. ‘The market will take care of everything,’ they tell us,” said Obama. “If we just cut more regulations and cut more taxes–especially for the wealthy–our economy will grow stronger.
“Sure, they say, there will be winners and losers,” Obama continued. ”But if the winners do really well, then jobs and prosperity will eventually trickle down to everybody else. And, they argue, even if prosperity doesn’t trickle down, well, that’s the price of liberty.
MIND BLOWING
Report Post »AOL_REFUGEE
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 6:31pmGod created the dog, and when the dog dropped a deuce, that’s when the ancestor of Obama and his brain was born.
Report Post »Dinkiecb
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 6:50pmOh go ahead…check my id when I vote .. “ I ” don’t mind and “I” don’t care .. if i get pulled over I don‘t have to be stupid to know that they’ll ask for my id .. it‘s the real world it happens show your id or don’t vote!
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 7:00pmOur Representitives should be familiar with Voting Laws, But most
are so corrupt and totaly ignore most of our Laws…
What are the requirements to vote in America today??
Report Post »If you are18 years of age American citizen and registered in your area.. The local DMV, Social Security or Secretary of State office can register you. Go to your local polls which will be on your voters registration card, and thats that.. The 2008 General election had serious voter fraud
implications…IF YOU DON’T REGISTER TO VOTE, YOU DON’T VOTE.. PERIOD……I.D.
BMartin1776
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 7:08pm~^~v~~^~~v~^~
Of course they are hiding something and forget that voting is a Privilege NOT A RIGHT. God forbid you PROVE you have that PRIVILEGE to vote. We wouldnt want any fraud going on. God forbid us wanting to keep Mickey Mouse and the Lone Ranger from voting again like in 08 that put a progressive marxist destroyer into the white house.
So go ahead all you progressive destroyers with your demonizing and labeling of those of us on the side of common sense and justice. We know the game you are playing and its all just words. You can call me every name in the book Ill still stand my ground calling you for what and who you are by your ACTIONS. I sense some racism here too by Lee? Uh oh dont go there BM1776!
Yea I will because we all know the left are masters at manipulating minorities etc in getting their dirty work & them to vote… in some cases more than once! Minorities ought to wake up and take notice that cities and states that are heavily run by dems are in dire straits, Detroit epitomizes it.
Report Post »http://SavingtheRepublic.com
Ruler4You
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 7:11pmInteresting how there is no topic, no legislation, no view point, no opinion that the CBC or the “private” race lobby won’t tie to “racism”.
“It’s all whiteys fault.”
And only rhetorical opinion can offered up as some lame excuse for justification for their own racial prejudice. And their ONLY basis for that ground is in the legislation that states that ONLY whites can be racist. ITS A LAW, folks.
Racism “IS” legislated as ONLY a white (guilty) issue. Blacks can’t be racist. Mexicans can’t be racist. Asians can’t be racist. Inuits can’t be racist. ONLY whites can ‘legally’ be racist.
But you and I are the manipulated in this “legal arrangement”.
It’s stupid. But our congress has spoken ‘for us’ and we pay, for ETERNITY.
Americans had better learn to keep in touch with their governments’ betrayal of their trust. Or learn to genuflect on command.
Report Post »decendentof56
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 7:15pmWaitin…..
So true. SERIOUSLY PEOPLE….You need to read J Christian Adams book….“Injustice”
Adams worked for the DOJ‘s ’voters section for 5 years. There are so many former militant Black activists working there. Fraud has been perpetuated upon Whites, and some of those activists have actually said that they are charged with protecting “Black voters” rights, not Whites’ rights.
Holder/Obama are the architects. Why do you think there was no case brought on the NBP’s who were at the Philly voting location in 08?
Report Post »CleanUpAisle2013
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 7:23pmI am yet to hear one opponent of the voter ID law explain why “their people” are unable to get an ID when other voters can. ID does not mean just a driver’s license. Opposing voter ID laws makes as much sense as when our local government had on the ballot a vote for a 1 cent sales tax which would allow us to hire 100 more policemen/women and establish two more community police stations. When first proposed to go on the ballot guess who vehemently opposed this … the local NAACP.
Report Post »If you do not want to show your ID what are you hiding? If you oppose better and more timely police reaction times and protection … what are you afraid of? Or, rather, guilty of?
SpeckChaser
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 7:24pmIn addition to voting, here are a few more things republicans will obstruct the poor from without ID…
Going to a casino, a club, jury duty, NC-17 movie, getting a gym membership, gun club membership, rent a storage unit, rent a car, write a check, get a savings account, withdrawal money from the savings account, get auto insurance, home insurance, pick up children from daycare, buy guns, ammo, knives, spray paint, alcohol, cigarets, explicit cd’s and video games, buy a house, a boat, a car, a four wheeler, get a loan, get pulled (profiled)over, get a tattoo, adopt a child, adopt a pet, get electricity to you home, get a credit card, sign up for city water/sewer/garbage, apply for a job, get security clearance for the job.
And if you somehow get through life dodging all the things you will need an ID for, some fat cat republican will be there to subject you to dirty air, dirty water and steal your food. That same republican will eventually push you over a cliff in a wheelchair.
Report Post »eagleye
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 7:33pmTypical rederic from a stinking commi,Liberal ****.Everyone knows that Liberals engage in voter fruad so they can guarantee getting elected,that includes counting votes of Illegal Aliens. Filthy douche bag.
Report Post »decendentof56
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 7:34pmLBT and KEVINTAMPA…..
Nice posts!
BUT……..the ‘voters section’ of the “civil rights division of the DOJ can’t process illegal ballots if there is an ID that is enforced. THAT IS HOW THEY WILL STEAL THE ELECTION FOR OBAMA!
They have produced absentee ballots for dead people, people who do not live in the municipality that the vote is cast, and HAVE EVEN MARKED BALLOTS FOR BLACKS WHO CAN’T READ OR ARE NOT INTERESTED ENOUGH TO EVEN VOTE!
Do you see it? If ID’s are enforced, they can’t do that as easily. ITS NOT EVEN ABOUT BLACKS BEING DENIED THE RIGHT TO VOTE
J Christian Adams’ book “Injustice” explains it in detail. You will be infuriated, and you will vote against Obama if you read that book. Trust me!
Report Post »IMAWAKENOW
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 7:42pmIt does make it a lot more difficult to vote for a dead relative if you have to show an ID card. Likewise if you are an illegal alien.
Report Post »Marci
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 7:44pmWhat a crock of crap. They are not denied getting a drivers license or id card in any way, shape or form, which by the way is something that is required in MOST cases. This is nothing more than progressives seeking a way to perpetuate more voter fraud, and it has ZERO to do with black people. It has everything to do with ensuring illegals and prisoners get to vote—and in addition, anyone who does vote can vote early and often. The CBC needs to be abolished–they are the epitome of racism and they exist ONLY to keep racism alive and to mete out special rights based on being a minority. (in exchange for votes OF COURSE–nothing is truly free)
Report Post »jarhead69
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 7:55pmi had to show my id the last election and i’m white, what’s with that ?
Report Post »Komponist-ZAH
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 8:13pm“The only thing ID checking stops is my long dead Scottish great uncle Seamus from pulling a lever for BHO.”
I’ve got it! Republicans just hate dead people!—err…the vitally challenged?
Why, Ghost, must you spew this hatred of the deceased? ;)
Report Post »bhohater
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 8:30pmA big part of the democrat’s ground game is voter fraud, it’s just their nature to cheat.
Report Post »Constitution Hour
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 9:07pmHave any of these twits read the reconstruction acts of 1867? I suppose not or they would know those acts are what created voter registration in America. The military districts (former Union States)
Report Post »instituted voter registration to ensure that no one who supported the rebellion (Southern Confederation) would be allowed to vote for the new Government of the soon to be Union States(military districts under marshall law).
lillymckim
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 9:08pmShe thinks if she throws around her racist remarks everyone will cower … and run sacred those days are over
Three years of class warfare lady we are sick of it.. it’s not going to work this time.
Just show your ID lady if you want to vote … we don’t care who you “think” you are.
I have to show MY ID and you have to show yours .you are no better than I
and leave your threadbare racist remarks out of it
Just show your ID or you don‘t vote it’s just ….“FAIR”
(More “Proof” that voter fraud took place in 2008 found in Indiana today)
Report Post »jzs
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 9:45pmOh come on guys, you’re talking to your Uncle jzs here. You’re not giving the Republican legislators and Governors their due. This is hard ball politics and they are playing it. They are not stupid and I don’t think you are either.
A lot of laws have been passed in the last year by Republican State legislators, all of which throw up hurdles to legitimate US citizens voting.
The requirement for a issued government ID is only one (how Republicans love the idea of a government issued ID, but only as far as voting goes!). In Texas they used to accept a student ID as proof of identification, but no more. And who is least likely to have an ID? You know the answer: young voters, elderly voters and minority voters, those most likely to vote Democratic. So they have to go somewhere, wait in line at a State office, pay what amounts to a poll tax, and then in a month they’ll get their government issued ID.
That’s not all. Republican led states are shortening the early voting period. That’s funny, Democrats tend to vote early. And Republicans legislation in some states increases the period between registering to vote and the ability to vote. Hmm. Another hurdle.
This is America, we want as many people to vote as possible? But the Republican strategy is to keep as many people voting as possible. And who are the people who have to jump over these shiny new laws? Overwhelmingly, Democrats of course. Coincidence?
Report Post »lillymckim
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 9:48pmWhat is she afraid of? .. a LEGAL vote?
Report Post »jzs
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 10:28pmGhostOfJefferson says, “What a mockery she is of a person… if you can’t take the time to get one [a government approved voter ID], or you can’t cough up the 10 dollars it costs to get one in non-paying states, you probably have no business voting in the first place, lacking common sense and such. And this nasty little woman, knows it.”
Wow Ghost, she’s a “mockery of a person” and a “nasty little woman”? She touched a nerve didn’t she? I say that because those insults added nothing to your argument (insults BTW, add nothing to any argument, as you know).
If you “can’t cough up $10″ you can’t vote? That’s a poll tax right? Having to “cough up” $10 to vote? And is it really as easy as “coughing up $10″ if you are an elderly person, not driving, who doesn’t want his or her Medicare cut? And if you don’t have “$10 to cough up” you don’t have “common sense and such”? What is the “and such” part mean?
All these measures do is to throw up hurdles to make those people who are most likely to vote Democrat less likely to vote. That’s why these brand spanking new rules were voted in, exclusively voted in, by Republicans. You know it and I know it. Cut the crap.
Report Post »Misha
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 10:33pmOh, I so completely agree with you. Well said.
Report Post »northernpatriot
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 11:05pmYou have to produce ID to buy beer so asking for ID to vote doesn’t seem extreme at all.
Report Post »frodis
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 11:11pmYou go Barbara! Why should we ID anyone who votes? I mean that would make it a fair process and we know you don’t want a fair voting process. Biggest idiots in politics.
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 11:16pmYes JZS,
Democrats tend to vote early, and often.
Keep making the voting period longer and longer, and there is no telling how votes you can manufacture.
Sorry Pal, no ID, no vote.
If you have the desire, and can figure how to vote, you can figure out a way to get an ID.
Why don’t you use your Wiki skills, and come back here with some stats on how many would be voters can’t get an ID.
And no, JZS, I, and many others are not really concerned about how many people vote. We are mainly concerned that those who do vote, cast an informed vote. I think some old dead guy had some thoughts about that.
Quality, not quantity
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 11:33pmSorry,
How “many” votes you can manufacture.
You’re rubbing off on me JZS. (That sounds gross doesn’t it?)
Report Post »Anti_Spock
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 12:35amHey Barbara Lee… the only people that can bring back Jim Crow laws are the democrats that made them.
Report Post »thepatriotdave
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 12:53am“Only people that have something to hide would object to showing an ID to vote.”
Report Post »==========================================================
Everyone with more than two operating brain cells know that there is only ONE reason why Democrats don’t support showing ID in order to vote… IT CUTS DOWN THE AMOUNT OF CHEATING THAT GOES ON.
Wanna see how much cheating goes on… http://americac2c.com/profiles/blogs/the-obama-cheating-machine-called-the-dept-of-justice
ENTP
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 1:14amSo how do they all get around since you have to have ID to drive, & how do the poor cash their welfare checks since you have to have ID to cash a check, also WIC program requires an ID check, etc. to receive money from the state, you need ID to prove you live in the state your filing for benefits in, I guess she is either dumb as a box of rocks or she is insulting the intelligence of her supporters. She is just playing to the “Young Turks” , I guess? Weird statement for her to make.
Report Post »4truth2all
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 1:17amYo JZS:
Report Post »You can drop the “uncle” thing, I’m not inviting you to my house for Christmas. What is so difficult about getting an ID. Anyone that can’t figure that out or is to lazy can come to your house for Christmas, and shouldn’t be voting. Why would you not have ID anyway?
How about if it is to make sure that only American citizens vote… which I think is a good idea…. Merry Christmas
pamela kay
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 2:50amWAITIN42012. Amen. Great comment.
Report Post »Virginia Joe
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 4:28amAmen – The only people without a valid ID are criminals in hiding! Who’s kidding who?
Report Post »M 4 Colt
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 4:33amThis woman is so full of bull sh it!! even the blacks and Mexicans on food stamps or well fair HAVE TO HAVE ID to get on those programs and they need ID to be able to cash their well fair checks so to say that these people don’t have ID is CRAP!!! The democrats just want to keep on with voter fraud having mickey mouse or dead people vote. It’s time to stop the fraud and DEMAND people show their ID before they are allowed to vote! No ID NO VOTE!!
Report Post »toomuchgovt
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 4:42amI don’t see anyone screaming racism when showing ID to buy alcohol, a gun, join the military or board a plane, ect…… Is this raciest too? Nope only when it comes to protecting the “integrity” of the vote, ummm…Great answer, you said it all.
Report Post »M 4 Colt
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 4:48amHay JZS you sir are full of it, you say that when someone goes to get their state issued ID that “after paying their 10 dollars” they will have to wait 30 days to get their new ID and may miss out on early voting. That is crap the state issues the ID’s on the spot, in case you have missed it state governments NOW use a tool now called a computer that generates the digital ID along with photo ON THE SPOT the most they may have to wait after their photo is taken is 30 minutes NOT 30 DAYS so, so much for your lame argument.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 6:00amMy question: is it only blacks that have to show ID?
Report Post »If not …….. this woman should shut her racist mouth
RepubliCorp
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 6:09amIn 1832, the phrase “Jim Crow” was born. By 1900, every former Confederate state (including Wyoming, Missouri, Ohio, Utah, Kentucky, Kansas and Oklahoma) had enacted “Jim Crow” laws prohibiting everything from interracial marriage to racially integrated public school systems. These state laws served to place blacks back on a virtual plantation. Similar to the “Black Codes” that came before them, Jim Crow laws were numerous. However, one denominator codified their sound support in Southern states: They all resulted from Democratic legislators of the “Solid South.”
Report Post »INFIDEL
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 6:11amThe Black thing is a scam – a subterfuge. Democrats don’t want voter ID because it would suppress the ILLEGAL ALIEN vote. Millions of illegal aliens are living in our country. They have drivers licenses, home mortgages, attend college and pay taxes. And they vote – Democrat. That‘s what it’s about – protecting the Democrat’s illegal voting block. I say park an Immigration vehicle outside every polling station and start profiling.
Report Post »wildjoker5
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 7:36amOk, let me get this straight. If you are so poor, you can’t get a valid ID, you are probably poor enough to be on welfare…But welfare needs a valid ID before you can recieve this free money. So who are these people that can‘t afford an ID that aren’t on welfare and still vote? Guess maybe it is the homeless that get shuffled around from the massive liberal cities to the more conservative leaning areas that may need “help” in the liberal voting block.
I can’t understand the reasoning behind the resistance to having everyone present an ID to vote.
Report Post »RodentKing
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 7:58am100% correct and these low life Parasites think they’re pulling the wool over our eyes.
Report Post »We have to vote out these vermin in 2012 and remember the lesson we were just taught so they never get back into American politics
Bum thrower
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 9:15amPoor baby….she needs to come to MY tea party, and she can “hang” around after….LOL
Report Post »hud
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 9:20amHey, we passed motor voter and other voter fraud legislation, fair and square, and we have gained the right to game da system.
Report Post »timej31
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 9:34amYep old, tired and wore out excuse. They are Americans not Africans. They can be represented by any American regardless of color.
Report Post »Ballot_Box_Revolution
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 9:41amAlthough i disagree with her analogy to Jim Crow, and her view that it is geared towards suppressing the “black vote”….I do agree that another form of ID does not get my vote. I don’t know much about this voting ID thing, but it will most likely turn into a National ID, Just like Social Security numbers, were supposed to be just an account number. Now it is a major form of ID.
I also disagree that everyone should be allowed to vote, but not based on skin color, but based on knowing what they are voting for. There should be some kind of government knowledge test you must pass to get to vote. Maybe put on drivers licenses that you have passed the test. I think this is reasonable, because a lot of people go out to vote, just because Puff Daddy told them to, and who to vote for.
Report Post »JLGunner
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 9:46amPersonal responsibilty is a tough thing for some to grasp. Especially when you have large groups of minorities that have been taught through the years that they are owed special attention due to some imaginary force working in todays society. Look at the fraud with foodstamps. What do you think would happen if things got even more relaxed there? More corruption!
Report Post »PATRIOTIST
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 11:04amHow is it these leeches come up with ID to collect their welfare benefits? Free healthcare?
Report Post »Bill in Texas
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 11:38amWasn’t Jim Crowe a DEMOCRAT?
Report Post »LibsFIB
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 12:15pmNo slave does my yard work or unplugs and cleans my toilet. It’s the year 2011; almost everyone is literate and has some sort of identification. So just present it when you vote for RON PAUL 2012!!!
Report Post »tmplarnite
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 1:01pmIn the 1870s, Democrats gradually returned to power in the Southern states and the Democratic Redeemer governments legislated Jim Crow laws, segregating black people from the white population.
Report Post »rosecityken
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 1:07pmO please JZS your so full of crap, your assumption that asking someone to present identification before voting is putting undo stress on democrat voters is absurd….we have all had to pay for our I.D. in our respective states. we all have our registration cut off dates, we all walk our happy @$$3$ to the voting centers and we all vote. And you need an i.d. to cash a check, hell, you need an i.d. to buy a pack opf smokes in some places. so why shouldnt someone have to prove who they are before voting. And if these requirements are a burden on democrats then so be it , they cut down on voter fraud…hmmm cut down on voter fraud and burden lazy democrat voters, does both…coincidence?
Report Post »NOBAMA201258
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 1:10pmA talking orangutan? what will they think of next? How about the intimidation of elderly white voters in “urban” areas? Or the forged signatures on petitions to get o’llama on the ballot? This coming election is going to get very ugly thanks to the most polarizing president in U.S. history! What is the problem with having to show I.D. in order to vote? I bet they don’t mind showing I.D. to get their welfare checks cashed! No I.D., no vote, no exceptions ! I am so sick and tired of this racist B.S. These people will do anything to keep the muslim-in-chief in power and we can’t survive as a nation with 4 more years of this P.O.S. P.O.T.U.S.
Report Post »CMDR6
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 1:28pmJZS….they vote early AND often!! Can’t wait to the last minute and vote twice (joke….kinda). Also, where does it say anywhere that we WANT everyone to vote?? I only want those that are responsible enough to know what and whom they are voting.
Report Post »Vs. the garbage we heard from the exit poll interviews after the ‘08 election. Many could not even tell you ONE THING that Pres. Obama stood for, but they voted for him why? because he is a black man, ok half black. Talk about Racists……
Repubs and conservatives do not fear the black, because more and more they are waking up to the deception of the left, BUT we are concerned about the illegals. So show your freakin’ ID just like me when I vote….
ThemDemsLie2much
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 3:20pmOnly thieves and crooks do not carry or have access to identification. I’m pretty sure it is also the law to have an ID. THE ONLY REASON DEMOCRAPS WANT THIS IS SO THEY CAN CHEAT ON THE ELECTION AGAIN. YOU CANNOT VOTE MORE THAN ONCE IF AN ID IS NEEDED! PERIOD! This would make it very hard for Acorn to do what they were created to do. Ask any police officer what his first impression is when a suspect has no identification and they’ll tell you that the person is hiding something.
Report Post »I Stand With Israel
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 3:26pmI agree, there is not one person in this country who could go and cash a check in a bank or store without some for of picture ID, why is it they can’t get one to vote. This whole fight from the CBC smells worse than chitlins.
Report Post »SoCaLCapitalist
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 3:51pmI agree that we need voter ID laws, but if we don’t why cant the republicans use the DEMOCRATS tactic of signing up dead people, puppies, cats, goldfish… what ever it takes to win right DEMS.
She’s from oakland, she knows the term “JUST WIN BABY”. Play their game if you aint cheatin you aint tryin.
Report Post »Ynnis Glytyr
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 4:55pm420 is always good….Excellent comment. I, myself, am tired of the liberals yelling foul play when their existence is in danger/challenged (meaning Obama WILL be defeated). They KNOW Obama is a one-term president who cannot run on his old platform, or worse, has no platform to run on. Of course they don’t want a voter ID because Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck (who also voted for Obama) have no ID. Man am I sick and tired of those incoherent liberal marxists.
Report Post »Ynnis Glytyr
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 5:26pmI wish you all a very M E R R Y C H R I S T M A S !!!!
Don’t let those delusional liberals ruin your HOLYdays !!!!
Report Post »hadenoughinpa
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 6:10pmTotally agree I am subject to random testing in my job to keep my job These people from CRC stop using that easy RACE CARD to get their way ID is not such a harsh requirement if you are legal here ID cards are available in any state or county in this country The dems and libs are afraid of this otherwise they would not be whining about it TEA
Report Post »Radartip101
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 6:55pmThey are always playing the victim game when they cant get it their way. It will destroy voter fraud, and they don’t like that idea.
Report Post »SpeckChaser
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 7:15pm@JZS
Great post but…While you are correct that we (non-liberals) not only do not want the poor to vote you forgot we also do not want them to have access to clean water, air, and defiantly not food. I’m actually in the process of starting a small business where employees will be expected to steal all food from the poor except for dog food. We republicans LOVE when the poor eat dog food. Another department will be tasked with polluting poor neighborhoods air, ensuring shorter life spans. Last but not least, the final department will be tasked with rolling the grandparents of the poor off newly constructed cliff in my back yard.
See JZS, that sounds more like what you believe. Right?
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 10:37pm@SPECKCHASER
Do you have any positions open?
I could send you my resume’
Report Post »Sparky101
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 2:32amIf this lady was a member of the Congressional Blac k Caucus, then she’s just another whiteophobic racist. What else could she say? Not a warm bone in her body, just a lot of lip.
Report Post »PKama
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 4:19amThis stupid woman is the product of the Democrat plantation. No, I am not white. Just a common sense person of color who does not buy into this Jim Crow crap anymore.
Report Post »stheide1
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:50pmIn every state that I have lived in I have needed my ID to vote. For some stupid person to say something like this shows that they are not able to use there brain. Most states have laws that say you need ID’s to vote. This is because we need to know you are legally able to vote in this country.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 5:10pmNow how are liberals going to vote early and often if they have to show IDs.
Report Post »WIjoyzie
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 5:30pmWisconsin legislature/governor (both held by Republicans now… finally) just passed voter ID. Thank goodness… now perhaps we’ll have a chance to wipe out voter fraud in this state!!
I have to show ID to take garbage to city dump and to buy cold remedies… so why is it so horrible to show ID to vote?
Report Post »blue_sky
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 7:14pmIf we send to Washington only people who understand and will obey the Constitution (including Section 8 and Amendment 10), then it does not matter who is the president – a neo-con or socialist – he wont be able to return favors in exchange for bribes or re-election.
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Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 7:15pmThese Mexifornia Representatives, Pelosi, Sanchez,
Report Post »Lee, Boxer, Feinstein, Miller, etc.etc..live by a different
set of RULES and LAWS…TERM LIMITS and Voter ID..
Will rid us of these POS…….
decendentof56
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 7:17pmRead J Christian Adams “Injustice”.
Report Post »Ynnis Glytyr
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 5:34pmBelieve me, an ID does not keep non-citizens away from voting. I have a drivers license but I am not a citizen. But, if I fill out the voter registration right (meaning I lie on it, like many ppl did in 2008), they would never know I wasn’t a legal voter. Still, I think a voter ID keeps people from voting more than once and it keeps Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, your dead Uncle Buck, and many other questionable people from voting.
Report Post »Locked
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:50pmI see no issue with voter ID requirements, so long as there are several forms allowed (for example: Social Security Card, Passport, State Driver’s License, State ID Card, etc). Seems like it should be checked.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 5:25pmIndeed, it’s just common sense. I for one cannot remember NOT producing an ID at the polls, ever. I‘ve always been ID’d, and I appreciate it, to be honest. Keeps things nice and fair as they should be.
Report Post »tzion
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 5:46pmNot social security because they have no photos. Photo ID should be required. I can’t cash a check without either Photo ID or a atm card, why should voting be so different. State issues IDs are worth getting. If it‘s such an issue that 1 in 4 blacks don’t have ID, maybe you should help them get one instead of complaining. I‘d rather one person who can vote be denied for not being able to prove who he is than have 50 people voting who can’t or 20 people each vote 3 times.
Report Post »decendentof56
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 7:24pmFAIR! Did you say FAIR?
Report Post »To Holder, protecting only Blacks at the polls, and producing absentee ballots for properties that don’t have inhabitants or for people who do not even live in the municipality are “FAIR”, so long as the vote is Democratic.
I’m warning anyone who wants Obama to go to get to the polls and vote for the Republican candidate.
We may want Santorum, Bachmann, Romney,or Paul, but if its Gingrich, we can at least work with him.
Gonzo
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 7:58amWhen they passed a voter ID law in GA, they set it up so the state would come to your home and issue you an ID if you didn’t have one and you were legal. How does that sound unfair? It‘s not like they said white Georgians don’t need an ID. The same law applies to all races. It could not be less discriminatory.
Report Post »warr9553
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:49pmjust another way of getting the vote of those who came to this country against the law.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 8:58am…and dead voters, don’t forget the dead. They are being disenfranchised by this legislation!
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:48pmMany black people live in precincts that will be run by black people. Are other blacks going to disenfranchise them?
The former CBC chairman is lying with her every utterance.
Report Post »bhohater
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 8:39pmDemagoguery is how the democrats stay in power. Their base constituency is made up of mostly of stupid and ignorant people who will believe a lie quicker than the truth.
Report Post »Ernesto
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:48pmI have to show ID to buy sinus meds. Everyone has to show ID to drive, but dems only hope for voter fraud is no ID. When all elses fails it has to be because of race. Lee is just a race pimp like Bro. Al & Jessie. The elderly and students need ID, and have to show it for medical help or SS. Students have to show it for many school functions.
Report Post »Katie822
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 5:28pmYes when I was in college I had to show id to go to the gym or the football games, I was not allowed in otherwise.
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 11:12pmRace Pimp!!!!
Report Post »Thanks You nailed this loony california woman!!!!
Moshy1
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:48pmDemocrats=voter fraud!
Report Post »anniebsings
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 5:49pmtrue that!
Report Post »bhohater
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 8:50pmIt’s just their nature.
Report Post »Maji
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 12:11amSo she’s against Social Security cards to for children to I take it.
Report Post »That was imposed so they (democrats) could count their future taxes!!
So now that would fall under “Jim Crow”… wouldn’t it??
It is a form of ID now.
progressiveslayer
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:48pmYes by all means just vote no id required,you‘re a moron lady and shouldn’t be in a position of power.
Report Post »You don’t want to require id so you can engage in voter fraud to keep your criminal ass in power.
ACLUHater
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:50pmDo these Aunt Jermima’s hear themselves? They cannot explain with any clarity and common sense how an ID is racist. They need to go back to the plantation.
Report Post »mils
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:58pmsXExactly!!! everyone has or can have picture id… no reason not to…
.except if you’re illegal..oh wait !!!, that’ the democrat base
.Barbara lee needs to show us why she thinks people cannot get a picture ID and therefore be denied the right to vote..
Report Post »Please ask her to show the American public…otherwise her argument is as dumb a she is…It’s always these balck caucus people that make the stupidist arguments and statements..
BLACK CAUSUC must be code for “stupid, backwards, black people that again want something for nothing”..where the hell is that “white caucus’…???
Get a picture id fools!
And Again, have Lee tell us why!!
don’t blacks have bank accounts, social security, drivers licenses, ??? AND !! they don’t need to drive to get a state picture id. a silly argument
The Catbird
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:47pmOh Bollocks! These laws ensure that every citizen entitled to vote get to exercise that right and not have some thief steal their identity and their vote. The Left know that their one brief shining moment is about to come down around their ears, and they’re going down kicking and screaming. And for the love of all thats holy, stop invoking Jim Crow, the fact of the Democrat party for more than a century.
Report Post »Slayer
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:46pmDid anyone in the audience or any member of the MEDIA bother to ask her to list examples or show proof?
Report Post »JohnQTaxpayer
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:46pmI wish stupidity and ignorance would take a holiday. The only sub humans who would believe that statement have the IQ of a small soap dish.
Why not be honest and just say “we want to cheat in voting in the 2012 election because no one with a mind would put such a fool back in office”
I would have far more respect for her.
Call her what she is “simple lying idiot”
Report Post »Katie822
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 5:32pmHysterical!
Report Post »geonj
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:46pmshe is right because black people are more likely to commit voter fraud.
Report Post »bhohater
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 8:56pmThey think they have a right to lie and cheat because they are a minority. They gots to level the playing field someway.
Report Post »dukeofpaducah
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:46pmEver notice how ugly left leaning liberals are?
Report Post »CatB
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:49pmYes …..
http://www.pollsb.com/photos/60/93060-democrat_women.jpg
Report Post »anniebsings
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 5:50pmthat’s because they are ugly on the inside and it comes out!
Report Post »staxmarshall
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:45pmHere we go again with the racism hogwash. How dare a state request that a potential voter identify themselves. These idiots didn’t seem to offended when New Black Panther thugs intimidate voters with clubs at polling stations.
Report Post »Marine4ever
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:45pmDon’t you have to have ID if you want to buy a bottle of Mad Dog 20/20?
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:50pmNo they steal it,haven‘t you heard they’re owed their drinks and smokes.
Report Post »bhohater
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 9:12pmYou gots to admit that it’s pretty hard to get an ID when you just “stay” somewhere, don’t work, and don’t know little annoying details like your date of birth, your parent’s names, or the name of the emergency room you were born in.
Report Post »UlyssesP
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:45pmWhat a racist this woman is for thinking “blacks” are too stupid and poor to get an ID because they are “black”. Being stupid and poor has nothing to do with it.
Report Post »smackdown33
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:54pmShe may know more than we think.
Report Post »JACKW33
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:45pmjust shut up. the poor have ID’s (welfare/foodstamps provide them), the elderly have ID‘s and students have ID’s. They can show them to access their benefits and cash their checks – they can show ID to vote
Report Post »IMPEACHBHO
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:55pmBut then they could only vote once….
Report Post »dukeofpaducah
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:44pmWhat the hell is this idiot talking about? In our society you need ID for practically everything we do. I bet it‘s not a big deal for those she’s talking about about to produce an ID for booze. I am so sick of these commies and their class warfare. They are truly the racists!
Report Post »Lord have mercy, on our country, if obamanation and these A holes stay in power.
GatorSkin
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:43pmWHy do the liberal nuts assume the only ones with a picture ID are blacks and hispanics???? How do you suppose we identify people voting???? Just take their word for it that they are who they claim to be???? Go get a friggin’ state photo ID and STFU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »NickyPinks
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:50pmBecause all white people look, act, and have the same racist tendencies. Don’t you know that by now? ;)
Report Post »chips1
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 6:17pmWhy don’t they just use their Booking picture?
Report Post »Dismayed Veteran
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:43pmWhy don’t we give cards to illegal aliens that say: I am an illegal alien. I do not have the right to vote.
Report Post »ENTITLEMENTSBLOW
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:43pmWhy do the dems always cry racism? I’m so tired of this crap that if you disagree with someone who is black you are a racist. What a bunch of bull.
Report Post »IMPEACHBHO
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:43pmThis is stupidity. ONLY American citizens are allowed to vote. American citizens should NOT have a problem with showing an ID. Having to show ID ONLY hampers voter FRAUD.
Report Post »JustJason
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:43pmWhy doesnt report make the argument, you dont want IDs because it would slow down voter fraud? Oh I know why that would be racist.
Report Post »smackdown33
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:42pm“Congressional Black Caucus ”
Does anyone else see the blatant racism being fed to us daily? Jim Crow is bad, but Jackson/Sharpton Crow is to be admired. Time to right the ship.
Report Post »ENTITLEMENTSBLOW
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:46pmI agree, congressional Black caucus is racist. I dont see the Congressional White Caucus?
Report Post »CatB
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:48pmWeren’t Jim Crow laws .. southern Democrats? I could be wrong but wasn’t that where those laws were. There is NOTHING wrong with having to show I.D. to vote .. you have to do it for most anything else .. especially in dealing with the government.
TEA!
Report Post »IMPEACHBHO
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:50pmYes, and they should be investigated. The DOJ should…..never mind.
Report Post »Carter John
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 5:03pm@IMPEACHBHO
Report Post »Do
Obama’s
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oldchevyguy
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 7:16pm“Congressional Black Circus”
Report Post »Jenny Lind
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:39pmGot news for you lady- I have to show an id every time I vote -here, in California, in Colorado, it doesn’t matter where I move, they all want id. No big deal unless you aren’t honest. (currently Ohio)
Report Post »NickyPinks
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:48pmThe only reason not to want voter ID laws is because you know of or agree with a corrupt voting practice. Get these people out of here already! Are there no honest people in this world anymore?
1 in 4 blacks and 1 in 5 hispanics? So, the non-registered and the illegal aliens. Hmmmm….why would we want their biased vote anyway? Oh yeah, to keep the agenda progressing. BLLLLLPPPPP!
Report Post »GETLIFE
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 4:17amHaving to get an ID could only elevate any poor underpriveleged person who doesn’t have an ID yet. How could Barbara Lee be against encouraging these people to move forward with their lives? Oh yeah, she’s from OAKLAND– another one of those “let’s hold down our black brothers and sisters, then use their plight to further our political agenda” BLACK (against black) RACIST.
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