Holder DOJ expert witness: blacks are dumber and less civic-minded than whites

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Paul Mirengoff:

An expert witness hired by Eric Holder’s Department of Justice testified that North Carolina election law requirements have an adverse impact on black voters because they are less “sophisticated” than white voters and therefore have more difficulty figuring out how to register to vote. Christian Adams has the details.

The requirements that the DOJ’s witness found blacks less able than whites to comply with are (1) registering to vote before the day of the election and (2) voting in the precinct where one lives. Since one needn’t be at all “sophisticated” to comply with either requirement, the DOJ’s witness, who was paid with our tax dollars, must have little regard for African-Americans.

Asked whether terminating the ability to register to vote on the day that someone casts a ballot impacts blacks disproportionately, the DOJ’s witness, Charles Stewart, testified in court that it does. He reasoned that (1) people who register at the last minute “tend to be less sophisticated voters, tend to be less educated voters, tend to be voters who are less attuned to public affairs” and (2) “people who correspond to those factors tend to be African Americans.”

Does the Holder Justice Department really believe that African Americans are less sophisticated voters than whites? Does it really believe they are less attuned than whites to public affairs?

To be sure, blacks vote overwhelmingly in favor of Holder’s party. Other than that, I see no reason to conclude that they are less “sophisticated” and “less attuned to public affairs” than whites.

If a conservative were to so conclude, Eric Holder would be the first to condemn him as a racist. Yet the Holder DOJ is paying a witness to advance this position in a court of law on behalf of the United States of America.

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Yeah.
“Help blacks.”
Give them a leg up.
How’s that worked out in terms of college education?
Affirmative action in higher education is intended to address past discrimination, but the result is fewer black college graduates than would otherwise exist.
Blacks get in because the bar is lowered for them.
But they cannot pass the classes.
So, they drop out in greater numbers than any other groups.
Minimum-wage laws may lift earnings for those people who are already employed, but they price a disproportionate number of blacks out of the labor force.
IF anyone other than a Liberal said what Holder’s witness said he’d be run out of town on a rail.

If they basically can’t vote without ‘Help’
– Then how did they overwhelmingly vote for the ‘I Won’?
– If they ‘got help’ ‘ voting for’ Obama then they ‘had to be guided’ in that direction… Yes? Isn’t that against the Law?

Wow…if this is the case (the black) community is in huge trouble.

Talk about sheeple…I guess they truly ARE an asset for the Democrats…why they pander to them…Democrats are Dangerous to this Country…

Funny how they can Navigate in order to get Government Freebies…or is our Government implicit in that too?

Perhaps a prerequisite to vote should be the ability to figure out (with ample guidance, as the left is always willing to provide) how to vote?

If someone cannot figure out how to register to vote and how and where to vote, how the hell are they expected to figure out which insurance they HAVE TO, BY LAW, purchase?