American Apartheid

Voter I.D. is just the beginning.
Voters have always had to identify themselves.
The new stringent requirements asked of voters begin to outline the "papers please"
mentality and policy of a racist authority.
Regimes do this.
South African officials did this to black citizens living in their own land.
Few families can trace their history in America farther back than African America families
can. The descendants of slaves are very, very American. The slaves built a nation rich enough and
powerful enough to defeat the 18th century British Army and Navy.
Without the North American slaves, ther'd have been no place at all about which the statue could
say, "Give me your tired, your poor..."