Embracing the Bell Curve, with a Voter ID suppression claim

E. Ablorh-Odjidja
March 28, 2021

It was not long ago when the entire Black world went berserk because of the work of one psychologist, Charles Murray.

Murray wrote “The Bell Curve” in 1994, which raised some hackles about race relationships in our communities.

Surprisingly, that insult in the “bell curve” is here now, restated in full force in the search for political power.

“The Bell Curve,” wrote Eric Siegel in 2017 for the Scientific American, “endorses prejudice by what it does not say.”  But the voter suppression charge by Democrats in 2021 daringly states what was muted.

And for this reason, the alleged charge must raise a concern for the Black community; not only because it is openly stated, but especially because it questions loudly Black political maturity.

Siegel went on to state, “Nowhere does the book address why it investigates racial differences in IQ. 

"By never spelling out a reason for reporting on these differences in the first place, the authors transmit an unspoken yet unequivocal conclusion:

"Race is a helpful indicator as to whether a person is likely to hold certain capabilities. ...The net effect is to tacitly condone the prejudgment of individuals based on race.”

The reason for voter identity nullification today, boldly states the "net effect" of a "prejudgment of individuals based on race".  It brings with it the same prejudices of “The Bell Curve.”  But surpasses it with its obvious “unspoken yet unequivocal conclusion.”

This is racism on steroids.  But, of course, racism has become the beast of burden for the liberal white political ambition; however, some willing Blacks go along with their ambition.

We were mad at Murray.  Shouldn’t we also by the aspersion embedded in the reasoning behind the voter identification nullification quest?

But this insult continues.  The Black vote is being suppressed because voter identification is required.  And the request can only be the work of the racists.  For this reason, the identification requirement has to be nullified to make the system democratic, Democrats say.   

Racism at the polls in America is historically not hard to point out.  But to cite this as the reason for voter identification nullification is a remarkable artifice.  Unlike the Black Code laws in the South, the request for identity is meant for all citizens, not only Blacks.

The Black Codes, “enacted in 1865 and 1866, were designed to replace the social controls of slavery that had been removed by the Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution,” wrote Encyclopedia Britannica.

“The Reconstruction Act of 1867 weakened the effect of the black codes by requiring all states to uphold equal protection under the 14^th Amendment, particularly by enabling black men to vote,” according to National Geographic magazine.

The voter identification laws of today do not oppose the 14^th Amendment.  The Black man is empowered by it to vote. 

But today, he has his political maturity being questioned.  Voter identification nullification has the same rationale about the mental acuity of the Black man in the same manner as what “The Bell Curve” said about his capabilities in 1994.  

Sadly, the Black man ought to be able to vote only by being called stupid first, the nullification implies. 

But other groups have acquired the wherewithal to vote and to exercise their political franchise with voter identification since the 14th Amendment.  Blacks ought to do so without the cry of racism.

This charge of racism particularly assumes that there is this idyllic state in our DNA code that puts the Black man's intelligence at a lower level than all races caught in the same political process. 

The voter identification card, available to all, we are told, is beyond the acquisition skills of the Black man.  And this supposed deficiency must force the change on how the vote must be counted and for history to mark as the Black man’s contribution to democracy in America!

No voter identification required, because….?

Without waiting for “The Bell Curve” to state it, I will suggest that no other race or group would want this brand of obliviousness put on itself.  Reasons of pride and shame would have fought back against this idea.

But here we are.  Our leaders have already embraced the branding.  

They are asserting boldly what “The Bell Curve” merely implied. 

That we, unlike the others, are too dumb to acquire voter identification and to engage fully in the processes that the 14^th amendment grants us.  So, we come up suddenly short when simple voter identification is required.  And just as sudden, democracy comes under attack!

One Sam Levin writes, “There may be no politician better suited for a moment when democracy is under attack than Stacey Abrams.

“A decade ago, when few saw any chance of Georgia becoming a Democratic state, Abrams pushed to invest in turning out Black, Latino and Asian American voters, who had long been overlooked by politicians campaigning in the state.”

It is clear Levin is a Democrat.  He is happy about the cluster of races brought over to the Democrat side in Georgia by Stacey.  Levin is not Black, but don’t mention his race.  Or argue that it is a canard to state that Asian American and Latino voters don’t lack voter identification cards.  

These groups do not have voter registration problems.  To date, the Latino, through political activism, has the best of the Civil Rights gains. And now, he is the super-minority race in America.  

Hispanics are already voting for the party that gives them the most.

And Asian Americans are so up on the academic scale.  So up that Ivy League Colleges like Harvard, in the name of equity, are suppressing their admissions into academia.

Why Stacy Abraham, a Black Democrat and of a party with the utmost Black votes, is the champion for the nullification drive in the overall electoral system is not a mystery. It is all about power, not race.

Of course, she wants the polls open for the abuses that normally go to benefit Democrats.  

The same ID that permits everyone to drive on our roadways, use airlines and collect government-issued material as well as welfare checks, must vanish at the polling stations only because the Blackman shows up.  

In Georgia, Stacey's state, the lack of proper identification brought out surprising victories for Democrats in the 2020 elections.  The results continue to raise doubts about voter integrity.

In the process, the Black man is being scarred.  But this is how much we have allowed the charge of racism to do for us only for others in the system to benefit hugely through its potent, political charge. 

Some, despite their whiteness, have benefitted.  Shouting the charge is useful mostly to cover or hide their white privileges and supremacy, especially so in the face of the “woke awareness” parade.  

But does anyone for a second think that when the polls are thrown open, with no identification required, the result will benefit Blacks?

However, such is the force of the lie.  Blacks are always the excuse, like the string that holds a bottle on a desert march, but the beverage inside is reserved especially to quench the thirst of others.

In every sense, racism as the excuse for voter identification nullification is as harmful as the assumption “The Bell Curve” makes.  Being told you are not able to acquire and use properly a voter identification card because of your race is capital abuse.

Stacey Abraham, in her desire to enhance her power - to become the governor of Georgia - is glad to use the abuse.  

I will gladly vote for Stacy on the merit of the issues, but not at the price of a concept that abuses my intelligence. I can and have obtained already on my own a voter identification card as a Blackman in America.

E. Ablorh-Odjidja, Publisher Ghanadot.com, Washington, DC, March 28, 2021.

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