I grew up in the Philly area and had my radio locked on KYW 1060 when the Phillies weren't playing. Last night I Ihearted KYW 103.9 to hear the local news on the mayoral primary. Instead, they were interviewing some local academic on the issue of voting in general. He was talking about how Philadelphia was working hard on ensuring voter rights but needed to do more (Saturday voting, weeks-early voting) instead of requiring that people have to bring their "birth certificates" to the polls (as a joke). He then talked about the "horrible" bill that was just passed in Florida, which was mostly technical revisions but requiring voter ID, as if it were the institution of a right-wing dictatorship. It reminded me of how wide the gulf is between us and them, and "them" aren't going to give up ever, so we must never lessen our diligence.
It is RACIST to claim minorities have difficulty obtaining Gov’t issued photo ID.