White liberals say voter ID laws are racist. Most black people disagree.
This month, as Republicans in Georgia passed sweeping voter ID laws aimed at bolstering election integrity, Democrats resorted to their favorite tactic when confronted with a policy they don’t like: crying white supremacy.
In this case, prominent figures on the Left united to push forth a particularly disgusting narrative — that voter ID requirements are tantamount to Jim Crow laws.
Despite the ahistorical nature of these claims — and the fact that there are still millions of black Americans who actually lived under these racist Democratic Party mandates in the segregation-era South — everyone from Stacey Abrams, to Joe Biden, to Elizabeth Warren lined up to fight what they called “the new Jim Crow.”
Biden, in his first press conference as President, even went as far as saying Georgia’s new voter ID law “makes Jim Crow look like Jim Eagle,” whatever that means.
So what was the reaction from black Americans — the very people supposedly doomed to suffer oppression under this new era of codified racism?
Far from fear, or anger, according to a new Rasmussen poll, the reaction was support. Overwhelming support.
Nearly 70% of black people living in America support laws that require prospective voters to provide an ID, such as a driver’s license, before being allowed to cast their ballot.
ATLANTA, GA - DECEMBER 15: U.S. Democratic Senate candidate Raphael Warnock (R) bumps elbows with Stacey Abrams (L) during a campaign rally with U.S. President-elect Joe Biden at Pullman Yard on December 15, 2020 in Atlanta, Georgia. Biden’s stop in Georgia comes less than a month before the January 5 runoff election for Senate candidates Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock as they try to unseat Republican incumbents Sen. David Perdue and Sen. Kelly Loeffler. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)