Thread: NAACP requires marchers protesting North Carolina voter ID law TO SHOW PHOTO ID

NAACP requires marchers protesting North Carolina voter ID law TO SHOW PHOTO ID

Katie McHugh
1:58 PM 02/08/2014

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• North CarNNorth Carolinians marching to protest voter-ID laws must present a valid photo ID to participate in an NAACP-hosted protest against voter-ID laws in Raleigh on Saturday.

The central claim among the protesters is that the voter-ID laws disenfranchise certain segments of the voting population, particularly minority voters and poor voters.

According to official NAACP flyers passed out at the rally, protesters must carry the precise kind of ID that they would be expected to present at the voting booth.

#MoralMarch will protest NC’s new “racist” #VoterID, but you’re req’d to bring photo ID to the march. #ncpolpic.twitter.com/w14mzejdSn
— Stacey-SisterToldjah (@sistertoldjah) February 8, 2014

The march, dubbed the “Moral March” by its leader Rev. William Barber II, who called fora “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.”

(RELATED: NC NAACP president: Sen. Tim Scott is ‘a ventriloquist’s dummy’)

Chairman of the House Elections Committee and North Carolina Republican state Rep. David Lewis criticized the protesters for their “hypocrisy.”

“I find it extremely hypocritical that when nearly 70 percent of North Carolinians across all political spectrums support the idea that one present photo identification when going to the polls, the NC NAACP has filed suit in court to block this common-sense idea,” said Lewis in a statement to The Daily Caller. “However, the NC NAACP requires their protesters to maintain valid photo identification on their person throughout the march. The idea that Chairman William Barber and his followers find it more important to carry their photo identification with them when marching than when electing the President of the United States is reprehensible.”
Back in 2011, a poll conducted by Elon University found that 75 percent of North Carolinians supported the state’s voter ID law, and 80 percent believed it was fair to all voters.

The North Carolina NAACP chapter was closed at press time. Calls made to the chapter’s public policy director were rejected after an automated message informed TheDC the voicemail box could not accept any more messages.

http://dailycaller.com/2014/02/08/na...show-photo-id/

The NAACP Is A Racists Bigoted Organization

Posted by Joe Wurzelbacher on Feb 18, 2014

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Black conservative Americans are not represented by the NAACP.

Herman Cain, Allen West, Clarence Thomas, Ben Carson, Ken Blackwell, Alan Keyes, Condi Rice, Larry Elder and many, many more black Americans are called “Uncle Tom’s” because of the conservative values.

NAACP, crickets….

People like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are given a pass when they use the race card for self promotion.

NAACP, crickets…

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Read more at http://joeforamerica.com/2014/02/naa...cLPqQSpjDQD.99

Moved to General Discussion.

The Real Voter-ID Fraud? Look Closely at North Carolina

If the new law is so offensive, why is the NAACP telling its own protesters of the supposedly racist policy to be sure to have photo identification on them?

Truth in American politics today is often stranger than fiction. A vivid example: a rally organized by the North Carolina chapter of the NAACP last weekend in Raleigh to protest a voter-identification requirement passed by the Republican-majority legislature and signed into law by a Republican governor. The protesters contended that being compelled to produce a photo ID would disenfranchise poor, elderly, and minority voters, rolling back the clock to the Jim Crow days of the racist South.

Yet here were the “Important Dos and Don’ts for Marchers.” After noting “This march and rally will be conducted in a peaceful and nonviolent manner in accordance with the historic custom of the civil-rights movement,” participants were told “DO bring photo identification (driver’s license, passport, or other valid photo ID) with you and keep on your person at all times.” So the Republicans in North Carolina were trying to disenfranchise blacks via voter-ID laws, but the state NAACP’s requirement of the same for marching in a protest rally is not offensive? Oh, the irony.

I wish those who proclaim to stand up for the rule of law would actually read the law of the land, as interpreted by the Supreme Court. In 2008, the High Court weighed in on whether states could legally require citizens to produce photo identification as a prerequisite to vote. In a 6-3 decision in Crawford v. Marion County Election Board (553 U.S. 181), Justice John Paul Stevens wrote for the majority that not only did states have a legitimate interest to prevent voter fraud through the use of voter identification, but that a state was able to do so even if one party supported such efforts during the legislative process while another party did not. Justice Stevens was also explicit in stating voter-ID laws didn’t amount to a poll tax.

So why would the North Carolina’s NAACP proclaim discrimination in requiring ID to vote when the group told its own marchers to do the same to join a protest? The answer? Politics—pure and simple.

Perhaps the origin of voter ID equals poll tax/racism theme may be placed at the doorstep of Eric Holder. America’s first black attorney general did a disservice to the country during the president’s reelection campaign in 2012 when he likened voter-ID laws to a poll tax. In a speech before the Texas NAACP, Holder said that in regard to voter-ID laws, “We call those poll taxes… I can assure you that the Justice Department’s efforts to uphold and enforce voting rights will remain aggressive.” (Didn’t anyone in the AG’s office remind him about the Supreme Court ruling just four years prior?)

But once that door was opened, race instigators such as North Carolina NAACP Chapter President Rev. William Barber were all too happy to adopt the Republicans Are Trying to Roll Back the Clock theme. Rev. Barber encouraged participation in “civil disobedience” rallies during which hundreds of people were arrested. Prior to his paradoxical march against voter-ID laws last weekend, Rev. Barber had most recently been busy polarizing the races by offering the following commentary regarding South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, a black Republican:

We can do better to have honest conversations on matters of race without accusing political opponents of being racist or seeking to usher in our darker days.

A ventriloquist can always find a good dummy…The extreme right wing down here [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.”

For one who leads a chapter of an institution created to promote equality and eliminate racism in our society, it is sad to see Rev. Barber seeking to tear down the achievement of a black man from a differing political party with a different ideology. While Rev. Barber often invokes Dr. Martin Luther King in his remarks, perhaps he neglected to read King’s admonition: “Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.”

As America celebrates the important milestone of having elected and reelected its first black president, we can do better to have honest conversations on matters of race without accusing political opponents of being racist or seeking to usher in our darker days. Let’s instead be honest about America at this point in the 21st century: The civil-rights movement is over.

From the sweeping Brown v. Board of Education decision to integrate schools in 1954 to the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965, de jure discrimination is illegal in our 50 states. Does racism still exist in America? Unfortunately, the answer is yes. But to infer that America is as racist today or seeks to roll back the clock to the overt racism of the Jim Crow era through the use of voter-identification laws by individual states is both divisive and wrong.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...-carolina.html

NAACP Anti Voter-ID March Requires Participants To Carry ID

February 10, 2014

Over the weekend the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People held a march in North Carolina to protest voter-ID laws which the group says are racist. In order to join the march, however, participants were asked to bring a valid photo ID.

An NAACP flyer promoting the “Moral March on Raleigh” listed several “dos and don’ts” for the more than 20,000 participants who showed up to the event of Saturday.

Among simple tips like “look out for the elderly and the young” and “wear a hat and verycomfortable shoes,” the event organizers listed one item that seemed out of place for an anti-voter-ID protest: The requirement that participants carry an ID at all times.

You can’t make this stuff up:


H/T: Pundit Press

http://personalliberty.com/2014/02/1...s-to-carry-id/