No racism here folks, move along.
Hours before a failed effort by Democrats to pass a voting rights bill in the Senate, Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky was asked in a news conference on Wednesday for his message to voters worried about access to the polls during the midterm elections.
Mr. McConnell described those worries as a ginned-up controversy, and misleadingly cited data on voter turnout.
“Well, the concern is misplaced, because if you look at the statistics, African American voters are voting in just as high a percentage as Americans,” he responded.
Note that he thinks African Americans are not Americans.
Leaving that aside however – come on. The issue is future elections, not past … Read the rest