Yes we can....No you can't? Justice Department Expert, Paid $70,000, Belittles Black Voters.

“Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you." Mathew 7.2

Yes we can....No you can't? Justice Department Expert, Paid $70,000, Belittles Black Voters. HT: JudicialWatch.

In an astonishing piece of election news from North Carolina, a Justice Department expert took the stand in a voting laws case to repeatedly suggest that that black voters were “less sophisticated” than white voters.

Charles Stewart, a political scientist hired by the Justice Department at a cost of around $70,000, also belittled black voters’ education, competence, and public awareness.
A sampling:

Mr. Stewart: People who register to vote the closer and closer one gets to Election Day tend to be less sophisticated voters, tend to be less educated voters, tend to be voters who are less attuned to public affairs. That also tells me from the literature of political science that there are likely to be people who will end up not registering and not voting. People who correspond to those factors tend to be African Americans . . .
[Referring to same-day registration,] this is particularly a mechanism and a time that’s well situated for less sophisticated voters, and, therefore, it’s less likely to imagine that these voters…can figure out or would avail themselves of other forms of registering and voting.
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Q. Okay. So your testimony is that African Americans are less sophisticated than white voters; is that right? 

Mr. Stewart: My understanding is that African Americans have lower levels of education in North Carolina, and I know from the public opinion work that African Americans report that they paid less attention to public affairs on average than white voters do probably because of the differences the education.
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Q. Did you ever take a survey – did you ever do a survey in the case of African American voters in North Carolina to see if they were less able to understand the rules for voting and registration? 

Mr. Stewart: I have not done any survey that asks directly about understanding the rules of registering and voting.

More of his testimony can be found here and here.

Black voters should be furious at the suggestion they are somehow less able to navigate the basic rules governing democratic elections—and all taxpayers should be furious that they paid big bucks for this condescending nonsense. Hmmmm........Yes we can....No you can't?



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Obama: 'I'm not the president of black America'.

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How do you respond to criticism that your administration hasn’t done enough to support black businesses?

My general view has been consistent throughout, which is that I want all businesses to succeed. I want all Americans to have opportunity. I’m not the president of black America. I’m the president of the United States of America, but the programs that we have put in place have been directed at those folks who are least able to get financing through conventional means, who have been in the past locked out of opportunities that were available to everybody. So, I’ll put my track record up against anybody in terms of us putting in place broad-based programs that ultimately had a huge benefit for African American businesses. The resurrected financial services industry hasn’t stepped up in terms of providing adequate capital to small- and minority-owned businesses. There is no doubt that American taxpayers stepped in and pulled the banking industry out of the fire. It was controversial. It was messy. Ultimately it was the right thing to do for the economy. But it is true that once banks got back on their feet they haven’t been as aggressive in lending to small and medium-sized businesses as we would like. And I’ve had conversations with the major banks about this issue. What they will say is that some of the additional regulations have impeded some of their capacity to lend. We don’t see major evidence of that.Hmmmm.....for the "Track Record": Decision to list Arab Americans as ‘minority’ postponed 30 days to late July. “Arab Americans have suffered long-term, chronic discrimination and prejudice in American society,” Read the full story here.