Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Takes Out Ben Stein, The GOP, Voter ID - And Scott Walker - For Lying, Jim Crow Advocacy, And Unconstitutional Political Practices

Ben Stein thinks, before Obama, American whites were doing great with blacks

"The idea that the Republicans are making life difficult for black people is just nonsense, just absolute nonsense.”

And their enthusiastic response to The Case For Reparations proved it.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar grasps what "making life difficult" means better than Stein

The recent push by the GOP in many states to force a form of voter ID as well as reduce voting hours has rightfully been described by many as a modern version of the poll tax, which was declared unconstitutional in 1966,…Poll analyst Nate Silver determined that ID laws could reduce voter turnout by 2.4 percent, a margin that might sway close races toward Republicans. U.S. Circuit Judge Richard Posner, who was appointed by Ronald Reagan, said that such ID laws exist only to “discourage voting by persons likely to vote against the party responsible for imposing the burdens.” 

The same problem exists when the voting hours are reduced because wage-workers and single parents have less time to vote. And that’s the point, however un-American and anti-democracy: to keep voters away who may vote against you. This deliberate act to sabotage the democratic election process is worse than anything ISIS could do and yet we not only permit it, we vote people who support it into positions of power. 

Proponents of the voter ID law often admit that the studies prove voter fraud is extremely rare. So, they counter by saying, as did Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, Chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia Pat Mullins, and Secretary of State of New Mexico Dianna Duran, “One is too many.” Would they agree that “one is too many” when discussing innocents who might have been executed by the death penalty? Would they agree that “one is too many” when advocates of gun control site statistics of children accidentally killed by guns at home? Does “one is too many” only apply when restricting the votes of the poor and minorities?

No, it also applies to how many evasions whites will make, eventually, to avoid dealing with - and especially paying - this nation's moral debts,...