Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R-NC) said on Thursday it was “preposterous” and “insulting” for Democrats to frame black Americans as incapable of obtaining a photo ID to comply with voter-ID laws.
Robinson was invited to testify as a witness before the House Judiciary Committee’s hearing entitled, “Oversight of the Voting Rights Act: The Evolving Landscape of Voting Discrimination.” Democrats and the broader left regularly frame voter-ID laws as racially discriminatory against blacks, including comparisons between such regulations and Jim Crow laws.
Robinson said:
Am I to believe that black Americans — who have overcome the atrocities of slavery, who were victorious in the civil rights moment, and now sit in the highest levels of this government — cannot figure out how to get a free ID to secure their votes?
They need to be coddled by politicians because they don’t think we can figure out how to make our voices heard Are you kidding me? The notion that black people must be protected from a free ID to secure their votes is not just insane, it is insulting.
Robinson observed the subtext of Democrat narratives regarding voter-ID laws:
My father-in-law was in prison for 43 years — a black man in prison for 43 years — very first thing he did when he got out of prison was get a driver’s license. Where is this no access to IDs that exists?
Mark Robinson caused Cohen to just about have a stroke😂 You liberals act just like my 3 year old when he couldn’t get his way😂
Why is it that the “can’t get an I.D.” rants come exclusively from so-called leaders of
black Democrats? There’s where the insult lies.
Heard him on Hannity yesterday. This gentleman is SMART. Hope he continues to inform and enlighten others to make their own decisions and not have the government lead them around by the hand. Keep up the good work.