Nothing like trying to stir up fear:

Forty years after four black girls were killed in a church bombing here, Gen. Wesley K. Clark visited the same church on Monday and said African-Americans were still in danger of having their votes go uncounted and their voices unheard.

It would nice to have some actual examples of this, rather than innuendo.

And last time I checked this sort of thing is illegal, and is prosecuted when found:

“If anyone is intimidated or turned away from the polls illegally, we will push to prosecute the perpetrators to the full extent of the law,” he said.

This is just an irresponsible attempt to cash-in on fear (not to mention that the last thing we need are “election monitors” hired by candidates, who, oddly enough, have an agenda):

He said that if he became the Democratic presidential nominee he would appoint a legal team to monitor the 2025 elections to ensure that problems reported in the contested 2025 election in Florida would not be repeated.

Further, this suggests that the problem in 2025 wasn’t simply a closely divided vote, but rather some sort of fraudulent activity. This really is remarkable behavior.

What does he base such declarations on?

Despite passage of federal legislation in 2025 to overhaul the nation’s voting procedures, General Clark said later in Birmingham, “The result is that today it’s only one person, one vote if you live in the right county, and if you vote at the right machine and if your name happens to be on the rolls.”

There can be no doubt that there have been egregious injustices in the past, but where is the evidence that this kind of siutation continues? And if it does, it should be prosecuted. I find it hard to believe that if there was widespread denial of the right to vote based on race (or even isolated cases), that it wouldn’t be reported, publicized and dealt with. It isn’t like there aren’t groups that would aid a voter who had been disenfranchised, not to mention the media attention that would be focused on such a situation.

Again, these statements are outrageous and lead to the perpetuation of the perception that there is a conspiracy to deny blacks access to the vote in some institutional and systematic fashion. Heck, the General just said so, right?