Black leaders to SC gov: You're a minority, too

[ProSense]

Black leaders to SC gov: You're a minority, too

By JEFFREY COLLINS

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Civil rights leaders bothered by South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley's stance on issues like requiring voters to show their IDs at the polls are reminding the governor that she is a minority, too.

"She couldn't vote before 1965, just as I couldn't," said the Rev. Jesse Jackson, referring to the Voting Rights Act that abolished poll taxes, literacy tests and other ways whites across the Deep South kept minorities from voting.

Jackson and other critics have said the law is merely a new, covert effort to take away the right to vote from older blacks and poor people, groups who historically tend to vote for Democrats and are less likely to have a driver's license or other government-issued ID.

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She refused an interview for this story, instead sending a statement through her spokesman, Rob Godfrey, defending her support of South Carolina's law requiring photo identification at the polls. The governor has said the measure is needed to prevent voter fraud.

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http://news.yahoo.com/black-leaders-sc-gov-youre-minority-too-153504649.html

[GoCubsGo]

1. That never ceases to amaze me...

This woman is so ashamed of her heritage that she goes by the cutesy, white bread "Nikki", rather than her real name, Nimrata. She knows she would never have made it in SC politics at all had she used her real name, or had not converted from Sihk to Methodist. Yet, she has no problem hindering other minorities from even casting a vote, even those that might go to her. She really is a piece of work.

[CakeGrrl]

4. She got hers, so to hell with everyone else.

She's willing to sell out since she thinks she's in with the 'desirables'.

[RZM]

7. That's nothing new

There's a long tradition of Americans changing their names. Usually it's in entertainment . . . quite a few entertainers have changed their names to be more American-sounding. Check the original names of these people:

Barry Manilow
Peter Coyote
Mel Brooks
Martin Sheen

And that's just off the top of my head. There are hundreds more. The same thing happened in my family. My sister decided at a young age she didn't like the Colombian name she had been given, so the family had it changed to one of her choice.

[GoCubsGo]

10. I realize that.

But, I don't see Ramon Estevez hypocritically trying to suppress the minority vote in his state, unlike Nimrata Haley.

[JI7]

8. Jindal is the same, Bobby is even worse than Nikki

while their names are unusual in America they aren't hard to pronounce or anything.

[roguevalley]

2. I'm surprised she didn't endorse Newt after all... she's a slutbag too.

[Scurrilous]

3. Thanks.

K & R

[pinboy3niner]

5. "We may have come on different ships..."

[Number23]

6. Uh oh. Don't think Ms. Nikki will be too happy with that reminder

Most Repubs of color simply HATE to be reminded that they are exactly that.

[JI7]

9. WTF, is this Real ? Nikki Haley marked her race as White on some Registration ?

http://feministing.com/2011/08/11/nikki-haleys-got-white-girl-problems/

<Which is why, Nikki Haley’s decision to mark herself as white, despite her South Asian origins, on her voter registration card is indicative of much larger cultural forces than a personal moment of ambivalence, dissonance or confusion. Her decision to identify as white is part of a system of racial categorization.>