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11/22/2005:

"White People! Don't Just Cast a Vote; Sell It"

State Rep. Sue Burmeister, an Augusta Republican and author of the state's controversial voter ID law, told investigators for the Justice Department that the law isn't a threat since black voters in her area vote only if they're paid to vote anyway.

Ladies and gentlemen, that's racism, pure and ugly.

I know that sounds harsh — the racism charge gets tossed around a lot these days — but it's hard to describe this any other way.

In fact, this has really made me angry. I'm a white guy, and I've voted lots of times. Now, after all these years of standing in lines and punching ballots, I discover that I've been voting for free while black people have been getting paid to do it?

It's blatant discrimination against white people, that's what it is. If black people get paid to vote, I should be paid to vote. Equal pay for equal say!

And here's something else that gets me mad: None of my black friends bothered to let me in on their scam. I mean, it's one thing if they want to have their own cool super-secret handshakes and their cool supersecret lingo, but this is too much.
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