"You're last sentence is ridiculous. Ever think that the people that decided to take away voting on Sundays have no idea that it's such a big deal to blacks? I would never have known that. You might want to find out the reasoning behind their decisions before jumping to racism as the answer."
I'm retroactively reading this thread, and I'm only thru the first page. But this statement was so outlandishly ridiculous that it's hard to imagine anything else more ridiculous being posted later...Let's address obvious voter suppression attempts by GOP Controlled Legislatures, like NC for example. Since you want us to explore "the reasoning" behind their decisions...
First off back in 2013 NC GOP officials were forced to fire then Buncombe Co GOP Precinct leader Don Yelton after he exposed the exact motivation behind Voter ID laws.
Notice his use of the generic demonization of "lazy Blacks"...
Btw, the point the host in this particular video (the original interview was conducted on the Daily Show) makes about how difficult it is to obtain documentation like Birth Certificates for elderly Blacks born during Jim Crow administrations is extremely valid. It's not the "free ID" that's the problem, it's the difficulty for a Black person born in 1920-1950 AL, MS, GA, etc... to years later track down and produce the documentation a state like NC wants to require in order to obtain that "free" ID...
Before you argue that the NC state GOP fired Yelton because they were shocked to discover he was a racist and found it repugnant, think for a moment what you're going to claim. You're going to try and claim (presumably with a straight face) that the FIRST time GOP Precinct Chairman Yelton let his racist notions "slip" was in front of the live cameras on a tv show? That somehow in all his years of working closely with fellow GOP officials and co-workers he never once let his racist flag fly? Seriously?
And just how brazenly racist did the NC Legislature get in its 2013 redistricting efforts? Imagine the city of West Lafayette trying to take half of Purdue's 45,000+ campus and move it from the 4th Congressional District to a redrawn 5th, for example...What if say the Library is part of the 4th, and suddenly the classrooms on the other side of the street are now part of the redrawn 5th?
That's exactly what the NC Legislature (GOP) did in 2010 when they split the campus of NC A&T into 2 Districts. The largest traditional HBC was split from a 13,000 mostly Black voting block into two separate Congressional districts with half of that voting power. So during the course of an average day, most students would cross from district to district repeatedly as part of their daily routine...
The (intended) result was to dilute any power Black student voters might seek to have to influence politics on a Congressional level. Instead of a single district where the 16,000 voting block would likely choose a Democrat, the end result was two separate Districts controlled by the GOP. Fortunately, the illegal gerrymander was ruled unconstitutional, and 2020 saw the Black voter turnout in the newly constituted single district reach historic levels...
Gerrymandering divided North Carolina A&T State University in two. Now, united under a single district, students are voting in record numbers
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