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Apparently, the vast majority of black people in America are now white supremacists … according to the standards of the Left, that is.

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.

It turns out that the vast majority of black people in America — the
very individuals Joe Biden assures us are victims of racism under voter
ID laws — think it’s perfectly reasonable to require some form of proof
that you are who you say you are before voting.

Such a finding would cause rational individuals to immediately refrain
from furthering the narrative that voter ID laws are symptoms of
systemic white supremacy, but we’re not dealing with rational folks
here.

The Left’s messaging is reliant not on rational facts, but on fear and
virtue signaling. They want to scare away anyone who might oppose them
with accusations of racism, and they are more than content to ignore
the desires of those they claim will be victimized in doing so.

Sadly, the black community has once again fallen victim to the Left’s
“soft bigotry of low expectations.”

What could be more patronizing than having a 78 year old white man
imply that by virtue of your black skin, you are somehow less capable
of carrying an ID? There’s a message being sent there, and it isn’t one
of empowerment.

It’s a message that says, “Your community supports voter ID laws? Well,
you must not understand the situation, and you certainly must be
missing the racism you’re being subjected to.”

The Left is right about one thing: racism is running rampant in the conversation surrounding voter ID laws. But it’s not coming from the
side they think it is.

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Trump won.

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