{"id":5604,"date":"2015-06-17T04:46:06","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T04:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/07\/29\/al-sharpton-has-long-significant-meeting-with-obama-holder-on-voting-rights\/"},"modified":"2019-11-06T13:04:18","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T18:04:18","slug":"al-sharpton-has-long-significant-meeting-with-obama-on-votingrights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/5604","title":{"rendered":"Al Sharpton has \u2018long, significant\u2019 meeting with Obama on voting&nbsp;rights"},"content":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/ManOfReal\/status\/361948857573195776\r\n\r\nYou might remember that President Obama used Saturday\u2019s weekly address to reiterate the commitment he made earlier in the week in his speech at Knox College: \u201cto spend\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/07\/27\/feisty-president-obama-says-hell-spend-every-minute-of-every-day-rebuilding-economy\/\">every minute of every day<\/a> doing everything in my power to make this economy work for working Americans again.\u201d And he\u2019ll get right on that, maybe starting tomorrow. Today was devoted to a long lunch date with Hillary Clinton and a meeting with Al Sharpton, Attorney General Eric Holder and dozens of others to discuss the Voting Rights Act.\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/TheRevAl\/status\/361945987473870849\r\n\r\nSharpton found time to write a blog post about the meeting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/rev-al-sharpton\/beware-of-fatal-distracti_b_3672264.html\">for the Huffington Post<\/a>, and if his piece is an accurate representation, he and the president spent a lot of time talking about Fox News host Bill O\u2019Reilly \u2014 the guy <a href=\"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/07\/28\/turncoat-mofo-cnns-don-lemon-slammed-after-agreeing-with-bill-oreillys-comments-on-black-community\/\">\u201cturncoat mofo\u201d Don Lemon<\/a> dared to suggest had a point about black culture. O\u2019Reilly\u2019s criticisms are just a distraction, see.\r\n\r\nThe issues of gangster glorification, out-of-wedlock births, the Black family crisis and others are ones that I absolutely agree we must deal with, and I have unequivocally preached about them and others for years. But when they are being used as a distraction from dealing with the very real dilemmas of \u2018Stand Your Ground\u2019 laws, voting rights and an unbalanced criminal justice system, then I must call foul. Right-wingers and gullible co-conspirators who don\u2019t want to see this country confront voter equality, and a just criminal court system will stop at nothing it seems to divert people\u2019s attention from the challenges we face as a nation. Even as I write this, states are currently engaged in voter suppression tactics yet again by implementing draconian new voter ID laws, eliminating\/reducing early voting days and much more.\r\n\r\nTexas, Holder\u2019s prime target for new legislation, was among the first to pass one of those \u201cdraconian\u201d voter ID laws once the Supreme Court struck down Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. In short, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/06\/27\/despite-free-voter-ids-bette-midler-worried-voting-now-harder-for-poor\/\">the state is giving out voter IDs for free<\/a> at every driver\u2019s license office in the state, and they\u2019re good for six years. However, applicants must have documentation to\u00a0verify their U.S. citizenship\u00a0and\u00a0identity \u2014 that must be the draconian part.\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/aloysiusmiller\/status\/361959733864833026\r\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/TinPotDickTator\/status\/361951231641526274\r\n\r\nRelated:\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/07\/13\/brit-hume-al-sharptons-continued-prominence-simply-amazing\/\">Brit Hume: Al Sharpton\u2019s continued prominence \u2018simply\u00a0amazing\u2019<\/a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/07\/14\/boom-tastic-larry-elder-brit-hume-tweet-epic-al-sharpton-slam\/\">Boom-tastic! Larry Elder, Brit Hume tweet epic Al Sharpton\u00a0slam<\/a>\r\n\r\nRead more: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/07\/29\/al-sharpton-has-long-significant-meeting-with-obama-holder-on-voting-rights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/07\/29\/al-sharpton-has-long-significant-meeting-with-obama-holder-on-voting-rights\/<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/ManOfReal\/status\/361948857573195776 You might remember that President Obama used Saturday\u2019s weekly address to reiterate the commitment he made earlier in the week in his speech at Knox College: \u201cto spend\u00a0every minute of every day doing everything in my power to make this economy work for working Americans again.\u201d And he\u2019ll get right on that, maybe starting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/5604\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Al Sharpton has \u2018long, significant\u2019 meeting with Obama on voting&nbsp;rights<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5608,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[100,158],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-politics-government"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/14345127663814-screen-shot-2013-07-03-at-4-07-10-pm.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5604"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65794,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5604\/revisions\/65794"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}