Butler: Voter ID is No Jim Crow — I Know

PROJECT 21/NEW VISION COMMENTARY by Charles Butler

Having experienced the psychological pain of Jim Crow laws firsthand, I won't allow those who likely only read about Jim Crow in history books to trivialize it. ∴ That's why I'm outraged about a recent edition of TV One's "Washington Watch" in which host Roland Martin and Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) compared state-level voter identification rules to Jim Crow. ∴ To the contrary, requiring valid identification in exchange for something as sacred as a ballot is a pragmatic approach to governing. Read more at Project 21...

Mr. Butler, a member of the Project 21: The National Leadership Network of Black Conservatives, is also a talk radio host for WIND-Chicago.