Rep. Burgess Owens called President Joe Biden’s comparison of voter identification requirements to Jim Crow laws “pathetic.”
Owens, who is one of two black Republicans serving in the House, came of age during the Jim Crow era, and he said Biden’s comments made it evident that the two were not on the same side of the laws that segregated white and black people at the time.
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“I still remember seeing my father fighting violent white supremacists because my mother dared use a ‘whites only’ bathroom in the Jim Crow south. We were on different sides of Jim Crow laws Mr. Biden, or you’d understand how pathetic it is to compare showing I-D to them,” the Utah congressman tweeted Saturday.
I still remember seeing my father fighting violent white supremacists because my mother dared use a “whites only” bathroom in the Jim Crow south. We were on different sides of Jim Crow laws Mr. Biden or you’d understand how pathetic it is to compare showing I-D to them. https://t.co/pISxDbQPQ2
— Burgess Owens (@BurgessOwens) March 27, 2021
Biden has been outspoken on the GOP-led push nationally to curb voting laws, including mandating identification requirements and limiting the accessibility of ballot drop boxes or absentee ballots.
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The president, who said that the voting restrictions made the Jim Crow laws look like “Jim Eagle,” made the comment after Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed a sweeping elections bill into law Thursday.
The law, one of the first to be enacted since the 2020 election, would limit drop boxes and tighten identification rules.
