Asking Someone to Reregister to Vote is… Racist

Interesting…

So, before, it was racist to demand that voters be… you know… registered to vote at all…

And now, it’s also racist to ask someone to reregister to vote too…

Stop the world, I wanna get off…

According to The College Fix:

Two professors say that a proposal floated by a Pennsylvania candidate to have voters reregister to vote is geared toward stopping black voters.

Republican gubernatorial nominee Doug Mastriano has made several comments throughout the past year about having voters reregister to vote as a way to clean election rolls. But really, his proposal is a “dog whistle” to rile up voters to support neo-segregation, according to two professors.

Cynthia Young (pictured on right), a Penn State professor of African American Studies and English, told Yahoo News:

[Mastriano’s] stated desire to have voters reregister is a dog whistle designed to reinforce the racist belief that Black and other BIPOC voters are not, in fact, fully enfranchised citizens guaranteed the same rights as white voters. The irony, however, is that were his scheme to be implemented, many white, rural voters would be excluded from the voter rolls.

Mastriano’s plan is so racist, according to Young, that it actually hurts white people.

Young said that “just as with reproductive rights,” black people must “say loudly and clearly that there will be no return to a fantastical vision of a white nation that exploits Black labor and intellect without granting us our constitutionally guaranteed rights.”

The saddest part of this to me is that these viewpoints come from educated people…

I strive to be an educated academic, but that doesn’t necessarily mean you have to give up your common sense too…

This is not something that you hear someone say while waiting in line at your local supermarket. It simply doesn’t cross the mind of a hardworking American with a shred of common sense to believe that reregistering to vote in an election is steeped in racism.

As if we didn’t have enough problems already, we also have to make up some dumb sh*t to fill in the gaps.

I cannot stand these people…

For real, if you consider the act of reregistering to vote too much of a hassle to be worth it, were you really that interested, or invested, in voting to begin with?

I hate racism, but only the real kind. I have a sneaky feeling that if you were white, or any other minority, you would also be required to reregister. Believe it or not… this kind of thing would actually have an effect on every voter…

Are we gonna let people walk around with expired driver’s licenses too… or… is this strictly a political thing?

Thought so…

At this point, I’m not surprised… just disappointed…