Ed Lasky, American Thinker
- A few days ago I wrote about the attempts by the Justice Department to force the city of Kinston, North Carolina to label candidates by party affiliation. The Justice Department adopted a paternalistic (and insulting) rationale when they justified their action as being necessary to insure that African-Americans can elect candidates of their choice – identified by the department as those who are Democrats and are almost exclusively African-American.
The department ruled that white voters will only vote for African-Americans if they are Democrats and that the city cannot eliminate party affiliations on the ballot because that would violate African-American voters’ right to elect candidates (presumably African-American) that they want. (my colleague, Clarice Feldman, also has an article on the controversy).
The facts are: African-Americans are a majority of registered voters in the heavily Democratic community but low voter turnout often makes them a minority of actual voters on election day. Hence, the need to put a thumb on the scale of justice to help African-American and Democrat candidates to win.
