How is requiring everyone to have a National ID card racist?

Question

I am not for National ID cards but every time it comes up someone is yelling RACISM about them.

They also yell racism when it brought up here in WI to have people show an ID to vote.

I just don't understand it.

Answer 1

I don't think it's racist. Just very big brother. I don't like this one.

Many of us younger Americans may be unaware that from 1946 until 1972, the Social Security Administration had the words "Not for identification purposes" on the SS cards. This is because many Americans wouldn't take their numbers, due to religious and/or privacy concerns. Even after they removed the words, it has been an understanding (wink wink) that it was not for national ID.

Answer 2

Not everyone is here legally and not everyone can get a National ID card. Also, a lot of people can't even get a license because they're either illiterate or don't have access to a DMV. You may think that everyone lives the way you do in the United States but Katrina showed us that that is not true. The images that I saw on my television from New Orleans seemed like something from a third-world country and that took place right here, in the most powerful country in the world. Expecting everyone to have a National ID card is not only racist, it's classist. Latinos or Hispanics are not the only ethnic group that is here illegally, btw. There are many Canadians, Irish and British living here illegally as well. They can't get this National ID card. You're here to teach, what?

Answer 3

It is not racist, but I do not want a chance of being tracked, but on the otherhand, I do nothing illegal, so what do I have to be afraid of? So some national tracker can say, "that guy went to Detroit and then went back home," that does not scare me, or if I bought a case of beer, or a pack of smokes, or a roll of toilet paper, regardless, I am still doing nothing illegal! I still think my Michigan driver's license is suffice though.

Answer 4

I'm in australia and the prime minister here is thinking of doing it too. But I don't know if its going to be micro chipped. In the seychelles where my family is from, we have National Identity Cards, and they are not chipped. It has our picture on it and our full name and date of birth, its more or less like and 18+ card we get here in australia. I don't think its racist. I like the idea for I don't have a license and hate walking around with my passport. Well thats my opinion. I know in seychelles no one has a problem with it.

Answer 5

It's not, it feel it would be used much like a passport, but a bigger question, will a law enforcement authority be required to have "reasonable doubt" or "reasonable suspicion before asking for an ID?

Answer 6

Hell No - 911 replaced into unhappy are not getting me incorrect. besides the incontrovertible fact that it replaced into the possibility that the government replaced into searching for to clamp down 'for our terrific activity'. BTW, The Indians have been given screwed. no longer as much as date on the tribal identity card, yet, if I had adequate Indian blood in me i could get one to tutor i'm no longer in elementary terms yet another American transplant. replace: in simple terms study a splash on tribal identity card's. they're issued by the tribes as varieties of identity for use on the reservations. they're 'inner' identity's that are designed to maintain 'non-Indians' out of reservations and tutor the guy has the rights of an area American Indian. Many US governmental companies do no longer even settle for then as suitable identity.

Answer 7

I don't think it's racist; but it's 1984 - just 23 years late!

Hey, RLP: I cannot believe *you* are even asking a question like *this*!

Hey Ruth: Not only that; but neither my wife nor I even had to get a Social Security card until we were 16 years old and ready to go to work somewhere - and, *no* my SSA # is *not* "1" ;)

Answer 8

Not fair, you peaked my interest, I went to read about ID cards chips and tracking--you stuck in a Hillary drink question while I gone.

This technology is amazing,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ID_chip I am sure it will be used on prisoners and pedophile type people in the future. Using it on illegals was just your way of having fun.

Answer 9

I don't see how it's racist but it does strike me as fascist or oppressive.

It sounds like exactly the type of thing the old Soviet Union would have done. If you believe in smaller government and not having government in your life, how could you possibly support a national ID card?

We don't need to over-react to fight illegal immigration, all we have to do is enforce the laws already on the books!

Answer 10

You do realize that the biggest objections to a National ID card come from conservatives, right?