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JustAnotherGen

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25. Booker is doing the right thing on Voter Rights

Wed Feb 17, 2016, 05:07 AM

Feb 2016

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/sen-cory-booker-fears-voting-rights-act-threat/story?id=32977021

The senator recently introduced the Voting Rights Advancement Act aimed at preventing practices that interfere with citizens’ voting rights, such as requiring voter ID and changing voting locations.

The bill expands upon the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which first prohibited discriminatory voting practices used to deny the right to vote to racial, ethnic and language minorities.

The former mayor of Newark appeared on ABC News’ “This Week” four days after a Texas court struck down a voter ID law deemed discriminatory.

“You're more likely to get struck by lightning in Texas than to find any kind of voter fraud,” Booker told host George Stephanopoulos, explaining that the overturned law restricted the voting rights of 600,000 people who are disproportionally minority and poor.

He's got the sparkle to get it done. Sometimes all that glitters is truly gold.

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I am worried about backlash against the AfAm community as a whole if Bernie [View all] randys1 Feb 2016 OP

Who is pushing the meme that Bernie has trouble with AA? Who is saying SC is her firewall? thereismore Feb 2016 #1

I am referring to polls, not memes. So instead of addressing the issue, you do this. randys1 Feb 2016 #2

And I am talking about who is pushing this. Certainly not Bernie. nt thereismore Feb 2016 #3

Facts are not "memes". eom 1StrongBlackMan Feb 2016 #15

my response has nothing to do with the primaries. African Americans have been a common target for still_one Feb 2016 #4

BTW, voter ID laws, all of which are unconstitutional, are starting to rear their ugly heads randys1 Feb 2016 #5

You are right Randy, which make the Supreme Court even more critical now still_one Feb 2016 #7

^This!^ Kind of Blue Feb 2016 #8

^^This!^^ Kind of Blue Feb 2016 #9

the backlash has been happening since before this primary JI7 Feb 2016 #6

And ^^^This^^^ Kind of Blue Feb 2016 #10

You fucking nailed it Number23 Feb 2016 #22

!!! Tarheel_Dem Feb 2016 #63

+1, the establishment ... usually doesn't like to cede power uponit7771 Feb 2016 #64

Our whole experience in this country has been one big backlash Alenne Feb 2016 #11

+1. ... I ain't scared! The only thing they can do is ... 1StrongBlackMan Feb 2016 #16

pretty much all black people say they will vote for Sanders if he becomes the nominee JI7 Feb 2016 #20

Absolutely ... Black people have never trusted politicians ... 1StrongBlackMan Feb 2016 #32

This like I posted in my own thread the only people who can help us is us. JRLeft Feb 2016 #44

I kind of disagree; but, end up in the same spot ... 1StrongBlackMan Feb 2016 #46

Sorry, I don't see help coming from other people to help us, all I see is rhetoric. JRLeft Feb 2016 #47

Oh ... I do agree. n/t 1StrongBlackMan Feb 2016 #49

Good point! JustAnotherGen Feb 2016 #27

Bernie would not stand for it. And neither would the other 99.9999% of his followers Jarqui Feb 2016 #12

then it was unjust for black people not to support Joe Lieberman JI7 Feb 2016 #14

Was it? Jarqui Feb 2016 #17

Booker is doing the right thing on Voter Rights JustAnotherGen Feb 2016 #25

Actually... qwlauren35 Feb 2016 #67

It's going to be ugly. Starry Messenger Feb 2016 #13

What's New? FrenchieCat Feb 2016 #18

Wouldn't be the firs time. There was backlash toward blacks in 2008 over California's Prop 8. Drunken Irishman Feb 2016 #19

Yes there was! JustAnotherGen Feb 2016 #24

I think either way the majority goes Lazy Daisy Feb 2016 #21

Bernie is a keyword I have trashed JustAnotherGen Feb 2016 #23

I fear that you may be right on this prediction Gothmog Feb 2016 #26

You worry too much Depaysement Feb 2016 #28

Message auto-removed Name removed Feb 2016 #30

But when has ANY group blamed themselves ... 1StrongBlackMan Feb 2016 #33

Good point Depaysement Feb 2016 #35

No ... 1StrongBlackMan Feb 2016 #38

Yes . . . Depaysement Feb 2016 #41

Eugene McCarthey ... 1StrongBlackMan Feb 2016 #42

Whatever eom Depaysement Feb 2016 #60

Backlash from who exactly here on DU, nationally, both? azurnoir Feb 2016 #29

Perhaps - both? JustAnotherGen Feb 2016 #31

I remember 1976 too it's the year I got married azurnoir Feb 2016 #34

If Pennsylvania and Ohio and Florida JustAnotherGen Feb 2016 #36

who's promising $15/hr to someone already making $44,000 a year? or already making around $22/hr? azurnoir Feb 2016 #37

Exactly - so what would he need to offer that group of black Americans? JustAnotherGen Feb 2016 #39

$15/hr is an offer for minimum wage-do you think that no Black person works for that? azurnoir Feb 2016 #40

I believe we work for far less than that JustAnotherGen Feb 2016 #43

Bernie has and quite eloquently here in part more @ the link azurnoir Feb 2016 #45

I'm still not voting in the primary JustAnotherGen Feb 2016 #48

Just saw another GDP lecture the Black folk at DU thread. randys1 Feb 2016 #50

a question was asked of me and I answered if you choose to call that "lecturing the Black folk" azurnoir Feb 2016 #57

Yeah - there's that JustAnotherGen Feb 2016 #59

your choice you asked I answered azurnoir Feb 2016 #58

Black people monicaangela Feb 2016 #51

African Americans in Flint might wonder if they are being paid back for their votes. randys1 Feb 2016 #52

Flint, Benton Harbor, Detroit monicaangela Feb 2016 #53

Yep, but the added insult to them that Black people for the most part voted for Obama randys1 Feb 2016 #54

Exactly, monicaangela Feb 2016 #56

Ugh, could care less about their approval, but these are dangerous and violent people randys1 Feb 2016 #61

I am and I do monicaangela Feb 2016 #62

don't worry EdwardBernays Feb 2016 #55

Kicked for you calling it.. Quayblue Feb 2016 #65

I think prop8 is very different from this issue. I hope there is no backlash, but if there is La Lioness Priyanka Feb 2016 #66

I posed about this in GDP a few months ago firebrand80 Feb 2016 #68

Smell this ... 1StrongBlackMan Feb 2016 #69

no more and no less than when Garcia lost Chicago MisterP Feb 2016 #70

Any backlash will soon qive way to what will have to be a sobering acknowledgment of a new reality Blasphemer Feb 2016 #71

I'm not vdogg Feb 2016 #72

It will break my heart if Bernie loses, but if he does, like I said feb 16, the BACKLASH randys1 Feb 2016 #73

As a black Bernie supporter NWCorona Feb 2016 #74