In St. Louis, MSNBC host Sharpton compares the “Voter ID” issue to Jim Crow laws of the past, telling the crowded auditorium that “Your water fountain is voter ID.” Link to article. Is this really inside the bounds of debate? It is dreadful that the media allows such rhetoric without raising the penalty flag. Unfortunately, it is really par for the course. Just recently, the ACLU also compared voter ID to the
segregation of the Jim Crow era. We all know what imagery is coming next and it won’t be pretty. And yet Sharpton is allowed to preach his version of racial unity on his own show and on national news shows.
*Those who should be on the front lines today are “too lazy and ungrateful to protect something somebody else gave to you. You’ve got every form of communication that’s available, but can’t get five negroes on the block to do nothing,” Sharpton said.*
WOW – did Sharpton just call a roomful of black people shiftless “negroes”? Shades of Obama talking to the CBC. I know I’m not the target audience for these messages, but does insulting people to their faces usually win them over?