Jim Crow

WashPost's Vozzella Gives Credence to Democrats Blasting Virginia Voter ID Proposals As Jim Crow Measure
By Ken Shepherd | February 4, 2012 | 10:49 AM EST

Updated at bottom of post | Virginia Republicans proposing voter ID laws in the state's General Assembly are akin to racist Jim Crow poll workers, lynch mobs, and even Josef Stalin. Those comparisons were all made in the first seven paragraphs of Laura Vozzella's February 4 Metro section front page article, "Voter ID fight heats up in Va."*

Vozzella, who previously has complained about Virginia GOP legislators' "slew of conservative bills" front-loaded her Saturday article with the overwrought rhetoric, which she, of course, failed to dismiss as overheated rhetoric:

MSNBC Contributor Compares Miss. Personhood Amendment to Jim Crow-Era Abuses
By Ken Shepherd | October 27, 2011 | 12:43 PM EDT

Appearing on the 11 a.m. Eastern hour of MSNBC Live today, Nation magazine columnist and MSNBC contributor Melissa Harris-Perry cynically invoked the legacy of Jim Crow laws to blast a proposed constitutional amendment in Mississippi that would extend due process protections to unborn children.