You can’t make this stuff up. 

If Voter ID supporters could write the script, they would have NAACP officials flying to Geneva, Switzerland (First class? Likely) to ask the United Nations Human Rights Council to investigate voter ID.  Naturally, the “human rights” council is comprised of some of the world’s leading thug regimes.  One of the members of the council doesn’t even allow women to vote! To top off the absurd script, the head of the NAACP delegation, Hillary Shelton, would compare voter ID to the evil laws that black Americans faced in 1947.  The historical comparison is important to demonstrate a lack of proportion in the NAACP, one that doesn’t match America’s deep revulsion at Jim Crow to what happens when you buy a beer. 

Alas, this is no script.  This is no absurd plot designed to make the NAACP and other Voter ID opponents look like crackpots.  Instead, it is a real story. 

Shame on the NAACP for wasting donor dollars in this nonsensical trip.  They should have used the money to drive people to get free photo identification cards or pay for these elusive “supporting documents.”  One suspects the costs of Shelton’s airfare (and hotel, and food, and that of any supporting staff) would have paid for a bunch of rides and those elusive “supporting documents.”

Either the NAACP is totally out of touch, or is secretly working with Voter ID supporters to generate laugh lines.  I’ll go with the first option.