Throngs of people converged in the city of Selma, Alabama, for the annual re-enactment of a key event in the civil rights movement.
Sunday marked the 52nd anniversary of the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge over the Alabama River in Selma. On March 7, 1965, African-Americans seeking voting rights launched a march across the bridge en route to Montgomery but were attacked by police. That violent episode became known as "Bloody Sunday."
The march is credited with helping build momentum for passage of the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965. Attendees included the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Congresswoman Terri Sewell, Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill and North Carolina NAACP President Dr. William Barber.
Merrill's speech however upset some audience members. He told onlookers that the state has been working to create more opportunities for people to obtain photo identification and get registered to vote by going to various sites throughout the state.
"We want to make sure that every eligible U.S. citizen that is a resident of Alabama is registered to vote and has a photo ID so they can participate in the electoral process at they level that they want to participate," Merrill said.
Multiple spectators called out in opposition several times of having a photo ID including in the voting process. Many walked out of the church service while Merrill was still talking including NAACP president Barber, according to WFSA.
"Standing on this historic ground, where people died for voting rights, we cannot accept this hypocrisy of voter suppression," Barber said.
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Barber is spouting the Liberal narrative that voter ID stands in the way of voting, when it actually serves to protect our votes from those illegally cast.
ReplyDeleteIt amazes me that they keep claiming this 'voter suppression'..
ReplyDeleteI think if a mobile van rolled right up into peoples' driveways to produce a free, valid photo ID for them they would still try to claim they were being suppressed somehow.
More of the left's intellectual dishonesty (though they would have you think it's just intelligence.)
The only thing being 'suppressed' here is voter fraud.
If you can't verify a voter's eligibility to vote, then the election process itself is invalid. Elections are a farce, and do not represent the "will of the people" without verification that it was the people(eligible voters)that voted in the election. People, or groups, that oppose eligibility verification, are engaged in voting fraud and rigging elections. Voter ID laws are not voter suppression, rather it is voter validity in the election process. Motive has to be considered by opponents of voter ID laws.
ReplyDeleteIt simply never ever ends does it.
ReplyDeleteI am sorry to tell you Liberals this, but voting is a privilege, and requiring IDentification is like the lowest possible bar to exercising this privilege. Grow up and Stop Harming America!
ReplyDeleteProper I.D. requirements are everywhere but for voting, where it's evidently a free for all supported by the Left, who benefits most by it.
ReplyDeleteThey don't want the ID because illegals won't be able to vote then
ReplyDeleteVoter suppression? Give me a break. Just more evidence of their lack of intelligence.
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