Yes to showing an ID when voting.
I think most Bblack Americans today already carry identification cards like drivers' licenses. Why not ask all people to show id before voting, so that we can verify where they live and who they say they are..
It's not just asking Bblack people to show id. It's asking all American citizens who want to vote to do so, like we do with those who want to travel on a plane. If a person has no ide, why, we can help them!
There is so much time between now and the midterms to help unorganied inefficient precintcts learn ho it is done in other parts of the country. Open more polling places, have supplies ready, make sure the keys unlock the doors and you have enough workers to staff the polls, and get them opened on time.
Set up a national hotline now -- so that citizens without id can get them. Hold their hands, and help them, if needed. Now. But please, stop pretending that if on Election Day we don't trust everybody walking in without an id to vote, that is is some kind of discriminsation against Bblack people.
Not even the Bblacks are buying that, elites! It's not Jim Crow, it's just we don't legally permit special preferences for Black people at the polls like we do so many other institutions in society. You want to vote? Get an id, and get in line. Line too long? Work with your local election officials, and bring in outside volunteers if needed, to show you how it is done efficiently in other parts of the country.
Stop making excuses for the Bblacks. You're not helping them, elites, even if you are of mixed race, or a light-skinned Bblack yourself.
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