Classic Dennis Prager enters the Voter ID debate:
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the
NAACP, has gone to the United Nations — specifically the U.N. Human
Rights Council — for, in the words of USA Today, “help battling what
the organization views as forces attempting to push back voting rights.” Those “forces” are laws being passed by various states that require a photo ID for voting.
The NAACP move is so absurd and so self-destructive that one has to
wonder why the organization has done this. According to the Freedom
House 2011 assessment of freedom in the world, of the 41 members of the
U.N. Human Rights Council, fewer than half are free countries. Ten are
ranked “Not Free,” and 12 “Partly Free.” Among the “Not Free” members
are Angola, China, Congo, Cuba, Jordan, Russia and Saudi Arabia. Those
countries’ elections, if they have them, are rigged, and prominent
opponents are jailed, tortured and killed.
and this analysis of those equating Jim Crow era with… what?…
According to NAACP President Ben Jealous, the reason is that “We are
here today because in the past 12 months, more U.S. states have passed
more laws pushing more U.S. citizens out of the ballot box than in any
year in the past century.”
One can only say that if in the past 100 years, fewer blacks were
disenfranchised than in the past 12 months, all the claims about Jim
Crow laws disenfranchising blacks must have been wildly exaggerated.
But, of course, this, too, is absurd.
full opinion here.