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posted by chromas on Monday January 21 2019, @06:02PM   Printer-friendly
from the identification-politics dept.

Civil rights group marks MLK Day with call for 'Trump card' national ID

A prominent civil rights group is marking Martin Luther King Jr. Day by pressing President Trump to honor his promise to create a national photo ID card for citizens.

Martin Luther King III, the oldest son of the iconic civil rights leader and a co-chairmen of the Drum Major Institute, met with Trump two years ago on MLK Day. During that meeting, the then president-elect endorsed the idea of a national photo ID. This year, the group is calling on Trump to follow through.

William Wachtel, co-founder of the Drum Major Institute, said the group sees the issue as critical to ensuring King's work to remove barriers to voting.

[...] The idea has invited controversy in the past, in particular over privacy concerns. In 2013, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) introduced a measure, the Protect Our Privacy Act, attached to a Senate immigration bill. The Paul amendment sought to prevent the creation of a national ID card, citing worries that it would make it easier for the government to track people. Wachtel sought to ease concerns about such an ID, saying it would not be mandatory and would only be an option for those who sought it.


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 21 2019, @11:55PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 21 2019, @11:55PM (#789853)

    Do you genuinely believe black folks are too stupid or poor to fill out a form and pay $15?

    That is precisely what the leftists believe. They also believe that they are entitled to an automatic "D" vote for every "stupid or poor" black person that they can encourage to vote. The funny thing is that some of the poorest people in the US are in the rural Appalachia areas and these hypocrites, always whining about how voter ID laws unfairly target the "urban" poor, never seem to remember that.

    Somehow, we are supposed to turn a blind eye to the obvious glaring hole in their failed logic that IDs are required to start a job, open a bank account, purchase alcohol, purchase tobacco, cash a check, get on a plane, rent most apartments and myriad other things we do everyday. Anytime I hear anyone crying about how voter ID laws "suppress" voters, I immediately ignore them as the ignorant, partisan twits they obviously are.

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