Leave it to the Charlotte Observer to publish
hyperbolic hogwash and a bastardization of history by agents of
progressivism. This Sunday’s funnies
weren’t in the cartoon section where it should have been; instead, it was in the
opinion pages.
Christopher Gergen and Stephen Martin inked out an
op-ed entitled, “The Civil War and N.C. 2015,” warning North Carolinians of the
precarious position minorities are in when Conservatives hold the reins of
power. They equated today’s voter ID
laws to blacks being terrorized by the KKK during Reconstruction. They went so far as to quote the “independent”
U.S. Government Accountability Office that found blacks are the one minority
group most impacted.
Does anyone still believe federal government
agencies are disinterested and independent?
I laughed out loud when I read that.
As a matter of fact, liberal hysteria over disenfranchisement of black
voters was proven just that: hysteria. Tennessee
implemented this common sense law before the 2012 elections. The Heritage Foundation reported:
Black and Hispanic Turnout
In 2008, according to
the Census Bureau, 60.8 percent of the black VAP voted in the general election,
and 31.6 percent of the Hispanic VAP voted nationwide. In Tennessee, African
American VAP turnout was 58.1 percent, and Hispanic VAP turnout was 19.2
percent.[14] Since
white VAP turnout was only 53.7 percent, blacks voted at a higher rate than whites
by slightly more than 4 percentage points.
In 2012, the national
voter turnout of the African American VAP increased to 62 percent. Hispanic VAP
turnout jumped modestly to 31.8 percent. Just as in 2008, African American
voter turnout in Tennessee (57.4 percent) was below the national turnout rate.
However, this result was a mere 0.7 percentage point decrease from 2008 and
fell within the margin of error for the Census survey, so essentially there was
no difference. Black Tennesseans still outvoted whites by 4 percentage points
in 2012, since the white voting rate was only 53.4 percent.
Thus, even with a new
photo ID requirement in place for the first time, blacks still voted at a higher rate than whites. Hispanic VAP turnout in
Tennessee saw a huge increase in turnout in 2012, with 34.7 percent showing up
to vote, nearly doubling turnout from 2008.
These two “concerned" writers were also
dishonest on another sad chapter in North Carolina history. Here is an excerpt from their op-ed:
They should study North Carolina’s Reconstruction
era following the Civil War. With the KKK terrorizing blacks and their
supporters in the late 1860’s, N.C. Governor William Woods Holden sent state
troops into Alamance and Caswell counties to restore order. Conservatives later got their revenge by
impeaching Holden for illegally declaring martial law – making him the first
governor in the U.S. to be impeached and removed from office.
Yes, Governor Holden was impeached for illegally
declaring martial law. He was also impeached
for terrorizing disenfranchised North Carolinians. Mind you, Holden was initially appointed by
President Andrew Johnson as an occupational, provincial governor.
Holden’s political
enemies brought forth eight charges. Two charges were that Holden acted
illegally by sending troops into Alamance and Caldwell counties when each
county’s government remained in control. Accusers also charged
Holden with two counts of illegally arresting two men (Josiah Turner and John
Kerr). According to the prosecution, Holden also twice suspended
the writ of habeas corpus when arresting the men. Two other charges were
that Holden refused to follow state laws when raising troops and acted
illegally when paying troops. In essence, according to historian William S.
Powell, Conservatives, under the leadership of Frederick N. Strudwick, charged
Holden with “declaring martial law; unlawfully raising troops; illegally
declaring counties to be in a state of insurrection; illegally arresting . . .
citizens; . . . seizing, detaining, imprisoning, and depriving those citizens
of their liberty and privileges as freemen; and . . . refusing to obey a writ
of habeas corpus.
Liberals would have us believe there is a white
sheet and hood in every conservative closet.
Those ghosts simply don’t exist, and if they do, they’re an
insignificant minority. However, I’ve
yet to run into a liberal who wasn’t a bigot.
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