So the data you spoke of is actually just a hunch of yours about black people’s voting preferences? There’s nothing you can back this up with besides your gut?
All this time you’ve been informed by page 14 of a very narrow bill that I had to pester you to provide and a hunch that black people want to vote on Sunday after church during early and absentee voting procedures?
That’s how you come to believe something or someone is racist?
“Similar efforts by North Carolina Republicans [were struck down by federal courts deciding that the real impetus behind these restrictions was disenfranchising Black voters more so than combating voter fraud.“
So now, after roughly a dozen requests to explain your reasoning, you’ve finally arrived at supporting your argument by linking three articles that someone else wrote, presented without explanation?
If there’s one thing that CNN and the NYT get right, it’s the state of white supremacy in the USA.
Well done. Good night.
I laid that out long before. The changes don’t make any sense.
I didn’t figure you would read any article so not sure why I wasted my time linking. You dismissed anything they could have said without even looking.
It would be difficult for me to link a far right source as they probably feel voter suppression never goes far enough.
He presented a straw man about himself being accused of racism in this thread, and is now effectively playing the toddler “why?” game. Ya got got!
The proposed law you are talking about is a racist law. It’s not intended to be racist, that’s just a side effect of it’s intent… It just so happens that suppressing the black vote benefits the GOP… And benefitting the GOP is what that proposed law is about.
Are you going to point out how unChristian it is to be using Sunday and church for participation in and glorification of the State?
@Californiagrown You’re a coward and a liar. You also have the rare gift of disconnecting one part of a conversation from another when it suits your purpose. You might think that is clever, but the words are all still there for anyone to read and understand in context. As always, I can stand by mine.
Yet again you and your intellectual peers have reached for your woke playbook, running the only play in the book.
He’s racist!
It would seem as if that’s the goal of many churches. Why should black churches be any different? Because they voted D and not T? I mean most churches spent the last four years begging people to vote for the person who lead the league in most unlike Jesus points.
I believe this is the second time you’ve thought someone is calling you racist when they aren’t. As best as I can tell no one has done that in this thread. So you may be reading more into peoples post than you mean?
I don’t think you’re racist (and I don’t think Mufasa or c were calling you that either but maybe I misread.). I don’t know what a woke playbook is but if you have one I’d love to read it. I used to coach football and embarrassingly enough spent hours upon hours of reading any old playbooks I could get my hands on just because I found them so interesting.
When l DDGed Blacks voting on Sunday, it popped up a 7 year old article about ACLU suit against Ohio for voter suppression. While some data was presented showing early voting numbers heavily skewed to Black turnout, only anecdotal reason was given ‘demonstrating’ Sunday turnout.
My observations
Churches are railed at to not discuss politics under threat of losing tax exemption, yet it is openly done from Black pulpit (have experienced in person).
The early voting thing has changed considerably in 7 years due to mail in
Busing voters, same day registration/voting, ballot harvesting, automatic registration, attempting to disallow showing id, unwillingness to verify citizenship, lowering voting age - where does the Dem ever draw the line against the lest informed or questionably legal person vote?
Non White voters have tripled their % of GOP total since 1996 (Pew). How does this square with GOP keeping minorities down through a racist platform?
No taxation without representation.
It would also be unintelligible, as if written by a 12 year old. Because all far right sources are written by 12 year olds.
I don’t buy that. It is racist regardless of intent if the racist side effect is known. A non-racist, realizing the negative consequences for black people, in spite of his intentions and motivations, would change course.
Huh?
You asked what harm it causes.
I still don’t understand what you’re saying. You’ll have to explain.
Are they incapable of voting on other days?
If they go through the VERY minor inconvenience of actually requesting a ballot, I have no issue with anyone voting absentee. However, I am totally against proactively mailing ballots to people too lazy and too apathetic to even bother requesting the ballot.
So something like the SAT/ACT that clearly has the racist side effect of showing that Black students on average are not as prepared for college material is racist, even though that wasn’t the intent?
I don’t understand why anyone would want to make voting more difficult (as long as verification procedures are in place to ensure a fair election) for anyone unless their goal is for their side to have an advantage (which I don’t think is ethical).
With that being said, what are the things we can do to make it easier to vote, and keep the election fair?
I think having a national holiday on election day is a good idea.
I think having a single day for elections isn’t ideal. Why not have the holiday day, but have polls open for the weekend, Monday and Tuesday? We could devote resources to fund that.
Do either of these ideas reduce election security in any significant way? I don’t really see it.
I think discussing some of the other items like using DMV data to register people could be fruitful. I may or may not agree, but I think we would have something to actually debate.
Why would we want to make voting so easy that people have to put literally NO effort into it. At least making people register and either request a ballot or get off their ass and show up at the polls ensures they may take it a tiny bit seriously. Why would we want some stoner who knows nothing about politics or government to receive a ballot in the mail, randomly check boxes, and send it back in the pre-paid envelope? How does that help the country?