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jim crow the laws of the 19th and 20th
century that sought to disenfranchise
black voters from politics
it's a term that we're hearing a lot of
again now from democrats seeking to
connect that moment in history
to these new georgia election laws the
national reviews rich lowry
writes this it's time to begin to think
of invocations of jim crow
in the contemporary debate as just as
loathsome
and self-discrediting as the nazi charge
people who call anything in today's
america the new jim crow
are advertising their own lack of
seriousness and ignorance of history
as well as in many cases their naked
cynicism
here is an example of what rich larry
writes about and so
i'm convinced that we'll be able to stop
this because it is the most pernicious
thing
this makes jim crow look like jim eagle
the senate judiciary and rules
committees have started their work
responding to the concerted nationwide
attack on voting rights of millions of
americans that we haven't seen since the
era of jim crow
i do absolutely agree that it's racist
it is a redux of jim crow
in a suit and tie joining me now dr ben
carson founder and chairman of the
american cornerstone
institute and former hud secretary dr
carson good to have you with us today
uh what what's your reaction to rich
lowry's piece and to
those sound bites that you just heard
i think rich larry is right on target
and
it's it's very sad that some of our
leaders and particularly the leader of
the free world
would be involved in disseminating
information that is
untrue i wonder if these people actually
understand
history do they know what jim crow laws
actually were they were a mechanism to
diminish the rights that many blacks had
gained
during reconstruction and to enforce
segregation
and the things that people went through
in those days were horrendous
and to compare that with senate bill 202
which actually expands rights
and you know i find it rather funny
that you know the ceo of delta and
american airlines would be saying that
requiring voter id
is racist try to get on a delta flight
or an american airlines flight without
an official id you're not going to get
on there
and you know as far as absentee
balloting
is concerned try going to one of their
corporate
meetings one of the annual meetings and
voting
if you're not a stockholder or have
official documentation saying that
you're capable of voting
so if traveling which is considerably
less important than voting you know
doesn't get you know an x on it then why
should voting get an excellent i think
i would love to see these people
actually come on your show
or another objective show and explain
what exactly is jim crowish about what's
going on
we would like that too because we would
give them a forum uh to explain
their thinking any one of these ceos who
disagrees with what what you're saying
or disagrees with some of what's been
presented here
they should come on and talk about it
because if you go through these rules
there are as i said before
17 days during which you can vote
including
weekends on voting day you can vote from
seven in the morning until seven at
night you can register
three months prior to get an absentee
ballot and there are mail drop in boxes
all across the state of georgia here's
elon omar comparing this law
to apartheid in south africa listen
apartheid
uh ended in south africa because of
boycotts
and so our hope is that you know this
boycott
will result in changes in the law
because we understand that
when you restrict people's ability
to vote you create a democracy that
isn't fully functioning for all of us
she says mlb and these companies are on
the right path sir
well it's it's so disgusting that
uh people would try to take something as
horrible as apartheid
and try to equate it to this
and not to explain it this is the worst
part
they make these accusations they all get
on the bandwagon
and they will not sit down and explain
it and there are a lot of people who
just listen to headlines or they listen
to what's repeated
and they assume that that's truth it is
not truth
and it is destroying our nation and i
hope people will wake up and realize it
before
it is too late you know we're not each
other's enemies
and you know trying to create black
victimhood and white guilt
does not lead us to a good place yeah i
mean it's interesting you had an
election where you saw
bigger black voter turnout and an
increase
in black vote black voting for
president trump uh over the prior
election
and you just have to wonder if some of
this language is designed to
you know to sort of knock that back
well every time you hear somebody say
that this is racist just
ask yourself do they have another good
argument
usually they don't so that's their
default
let's call it racist dr ben carson
always good to talk to you sir thank you
so much for coming on today