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Controversial Reverend Attacks Election Day Photo ID Requirements as Racist Conspiracy
Washington, D.C. – Spokesmen for theProject 21 black leadership network are critical of the Reverend Jesse Jackson\’s (photo)call for federal intervention against state-level efforts to protect voting integrity, noting that the radical reverend\’s agenda belittles blacks and essentially would set them apart for special consideration.
\”Demanding that all voters — not just blacks — present photo ID cards at the polls is no more \’a radical rollback of our civil and voting rights,\’ as Jackson put it, than it is an assault on the right of free movement when federal authorities demand that blacks — like all Americans — show photo ID cards before boarding passenger jets,\” said Project 21 spokesman Deroy Murdock \”This sensible and vital step towards combating the mounting problem of vote fraud is no more a racist plot than are the federal rules that require blacks — like all Americans — to show photo ID before purchasing anti-cold medications containing pseudoephedrine. Bankers who ask blacks — like all
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