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Paul, it doesn't need to be a driver's license. Every state offers a photo id card that's not a driver's license, and many people of all races, get them.
And access to these cards, as well as to driver's licenses, is exactly the same for all of us, regardless of skin color. A photo id requirement has absolutely zero inherent racial bias. It may well turn out that such a requirement suppresses black votes more than it suppresses white votes (I wouldn't bet against that outcome), but that's a choice made by people to not get the id, it's not the inevitable result of institutional racism. Every single black person who doesn't drive, every single one of them, could get that id if they chose. It's no more of a burden for them than it is for white folk who don't drive.
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