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<\/p>\nJoe Doakes from Como Park writes in re Al Sharpton’s Strib op-ed:<\/p>\n
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Civil Rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton writes in the Star Tribune to oppose Voter ID<\/a> because 1 in 4 Blacks, 1 in 5 elderly and 1 in 6 Hispanics don\u2019t have the proper credentials and apparently can\u2019t get them.<\/p>\n
Oddly, others can.<\/p>\n
The Ramsey County Elections office is next door to the Property Records room where deeds are stored and I spend a fair amount of time working with real estate. I have seen an endless parade of Asian voters the past two weeks. They\u2019re showing up by the van-load. They have guides who speak English directing them to the right office. Older folks are assisted by younger ones. They\u2019re showing up to register and to vote absentee for the primary.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve also seen a few Black immigrants, Somalis or Ethiopians from the way they dress and talk. No \u201cAmerican\u201d Blacks, though. None of the people whose pants are stitched to their underwear, whose caps are on sideways, who have time in the afternoon to prowl the streets looking for 14-year-old girls in Frogtown and who learned to talk from rap videos. Those people can\u2019t seem to make it to the Voter Registration Office.<\/p>\n
Plainly, this is not a cultural thing. It\u2019s not a matter of White and Asian people being conscientious and law-abiding while recent illegal immigrant Hispanics (and Blacks whose families have lived in this country for generations) are neither conscientious nor law-abiding.<\/p>\n
Plainly, it\u2019s just racissss. And that\u2019s a crying shame.<\/p>\n
Joe Doakes<\/p>\n
Como Park<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
And I’ll add that it’s not even a matter of Afro-Americans and Latinos not being conscientious or law-abiding so much as it is the DFL, Sharpton, and their camp-followers in the Media wanting you to believe it; to believe that Black, Latino, elderly and young voters are\u00a0just too stupid\u00a0<\/em>to handle bringing an ID to the polls.<\/p>\n
We know better. \u00a0Right?<\/p>\n
Polling shows that a fairly decisive majority of Minnesotans agree, and support Voter ID. \u00a0The left’s response – other than chanting “Disenfranchisement” and “Racism” – is to claim that the process of getting a free ID is juuuust toooo complicated for voters. \u00a0And since their strategy\u00a0does\u00a0<\/em>seem to involve trying to win over “low-information” voters – people they can gull into thinking Mitt Romney is a felon who hasn’t filed taxes, that Bain killed a woman, that they’re out of work in 2012 because of what George W. Bush did (or really\u00a0didn’t<\/a>) do in 2007), that would be a concern.<\/p>\n
As Joe points out, many groups – groups that actually take democracy seriously – are making the logical connection; they’re getting their people registered. \u00a0 \u00a0Expect not a few legitimate groups across the political spectrum to extend their ‘Get out the Vote” efforts to getting voters registered as well.<\/p>\n
Clearly, for the DFL, it’s easier to manufacture bogus votes than to get their low-information rank-and-file to vote legitimately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joe Doakes from Como Park writes in re Al Sharpton’s Strib op-ed: Civil Rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton writes in the Star Tribune to oppose Voter ID because 1 in 4 Blacks, 1 in 5 elderly and 1 in 6 Hispanics don\u2019t have the proper credentials and apparently can\u2019t get them. Oddly, others can. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,189],"tags":[219,198],"class_list":["post-29511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-integrity","category-minnesotas-ministry-of-truth","tag-low-information-voters","tag-voter-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29511"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29513,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29511\/revisions\/29513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}