Scott Jennings Presses Liberal CNN Panel on ‘How?’ Could Voter ID Laws Suppress Black Voter Rights: ‘You Think They’re Dumb’
EXCERPT:
JOHNSON: "There are so many civil rights organizations that have run the data. If we look at the way that it is going to disenfranchise black voters, it's the same reason why Chuck Schumer called it Jim Crow 2.0."
JENNINGS: "So, how?"
JOHNSON: "This is the same president. We want to continue — "
JENNINGS: "You haven't said how yet."
JOHNSON: "I am talking about it."
JENNINGS: "How?"
JOHNSON: "It's the way that we're putting new poll taxes on this when you're making people have — "
JENNINGS: "Poll taxes?"
JOHNSON: "That's what we can call them now. It's kind of an idiom, right? If you want to say that people have to prove that they are citizens, that they have to prove with a voter ID, the reality is you're layering what is a constitutional right for the American people and making it harder for people to vote in this country. And it's going to disenfranchise black voters."
JENNINGS: "Does it — does it concern you that you're making all these claims, you've yet to lay out how it's hurting anyone, but 76 percent of black voters think we should show an ID to vote, 80 percent of Hispanic voters, 83 percent of the American people? Are you saying that black voters are too dumb to know what's good for them? I mean, it sounds pretty condescending."




