Jesse Jackson: Voting rights eroding in Michigan

Eroding:

The meme never ends. Requiring photo ID, something that everyone has to do to withdraw a single penny from the bank, is akin to Jim Crow laws. Proving that you are a legal resident is akin to a poll tax. I mean - really. From John Lewis over at The New York Times: A Poll Tax by Another Name (via memeorandum):

Despite decades of progress, this year’s Republican-backed wave of voting restrictions has demonstrated that the fundamental right to vote is still subject to partisan manipulation. The most common new requirement, that citizens obtain and display unexpired government-issued photo identification before entering the voting booth, was advanced in 35 states and passed by Republican legislatures in Alabama, Minnesota, Missouri and nine other states — despite the fact that as many as 25 percent of African-Americans lack acceptable identification.

And they can't get that free government-issued ID because...??? Not long ago, Jesse Jackson wanted to get his racist buddy Eric Holder on the case: Jesse Jackson to feds: Voting rights eroding in Michigan

The Rev. Jesse Jackson today called on the Department of Justice to intervene in what he calls an erosion of voter rights in Michigan because of congressional redistricting and other measures.

Never mind that forcing redistricting by race to guarantee a minority representative is a patent violation of the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment. Especially in states that fought against slavery and never had a slave industry. When redistricting, liberals like Jackson insist that too few minorities, or too many, is unconstitutional. The correct number is just enough to get liberals elected. Not less. Not more.

"The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is being undermined, the same forces who sought to deny the right to vote," Jackson told The Detroit News in an interview with other ministers, activists State Rep. Fred Durhal Jr., D-Detroit, at Bethany Baptist Church on the city's west side.

Those 'forces' that Jackson alludes to all came from, ironically, Democrats. Oh but it gets even better. You can tell this whole thing is just a push for more liberalism when voting rights get conflated with union overreach:

Jackson, who appeared in Benton Harbor Wednesday to decry the emergency manager who is running that city, criticized the strengthened law and said it disenfranchises voters from having a say in their government.

In other words, he is against the emergency financial manger law because it rights the bankrupt ship at the expense of the very unions that bankrupted that municipality via their bought and paid for liberal politicians.