{"id":6644,"date":"2015-07-29T12:49:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T16:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=6644"},"modified":"2015-07-24T15:49:42","modified_gmt":"2015-07-24T19:49:42","slug":"black-votes-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=6644","title":{"rendered":"Black Votes Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Juan Williams is gobsmacked. That\u2019s a good word for it, when a guy just cannot fathom why his team\u2019s losing, even though the reason is obvious to me. In an article he wrote for the website The Hill<\/a>, he was expressing his disbelief that the Democrats were losing the \u201cvoting rights\u201d issue; that is, the voter ID issue.<\/p>\n

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Even most black Americans \u2014 people who, overwhelmingly, don\u2019t vote Republican \u2014 currently favor new requirements for voters to have photo identification. Three-quarters of all voters \u2014 people of all races and political parties \u2014 favor such laws, according to polls.<\/p>\n

The black support for photo identification of voters can only be described as amazing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Well Juan, it just seems to me that black Americans, overall, seem to highly value their right to vote. That\u2019s not amazing; that\u2019s American. Juan tries to tie the voter ID issue to the poll taxes and literacy tests of yesteryear, but that\u2019s entirely upside down. A poll tax was to prevent<\/i> black people from voting. Voter ID is to protect<\/i> black people\u2019s vote. #BlackVotesMatter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Juan Williams is gobsmacked. That\u2019s a good word for it, when a guy just cannot fathom why his team\u2019s losing, even though the reason is obvious to me. In an article he wrote for the website The Hill, he was expressing his disbelief that the Democrats were losing the \u201cvoting rights\u201d issue; that is, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race-issues","category-voter-id"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t