Reply to DC requires ID for a covid shot???? WHAT?

Forum Index » Metropolitan DC Local Politics

Reply to "DC requires ID for a covid shot???? WHAT? "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Surely people can figure out how to get an ID? If not, there is obviously some mental situation happening.[/quote]

The point is not that some people "can't figure out" how to get an ID, the point is that in many places governments have specifically taken steps to make it more difficult for certain groups to get those IDs even if they know exactly how to get them.

Steps like closing DMVs in black and hispanic neighborhoods so people there have to travel farther and take more time off work to get an ID. Then reducing funding for public transit so it takes even longer to get to the DMVs in white neighborhoods. Then reducing the hours of those DMVs so that people who live in those further away neighborhoods have to take time off work to get their IDs. Then blocking laws that require paid leave so that poor people can't afford to take enough time off to ride the crippled public transit to the further away white neighborhood to get their IDs during the reduced service hours. Then raising fees for IDs so even if they manage to get the time off and make it to the DMVs in the white neighborhoods on the crippled public transit during the reduced service hours a number of them decide they'd rather keep the money for necessities and not vote.  [/quote]

In MD, the DMV are not in the richer areas of town.  Nice try though.  [/quote]

Cool, so if it's not happening in Maryland clearly it's not happening anywhere else! Sure is dark with your head under all that sand!

Except it is happening in Maryland...  It's not happening on the scale of many states where ID locations are being deliberately kneecapped specifically to prevent poor people from getting an ID, but it is still far more difficult for a poor person to get an ID simply because in the real world the DMV can't be everywhere at every time.

But there's no better way to learn than to do, so let's do a fun experiment.  Pretend you're a low income Marylander. You live at 8500 New Hampshire Ave, Silver Spring, MD 20903 and work at the Giant in Columbia Heights from 9am-5pm Monday through Friday. You can't afford childcare, but luckily a neighbor can watch your kid until 6 on weekdays, but you must be home by 6 because they have to go to their night shift job. On Saturdays from 9-5 you help your sister who has a cleaning business because you need the extra money. You can't afford to take time off from either of these jobs and you can't afford a car so you need to take public transit anywhere you go.  Let's make it easy on you and say you are a legal immigrant and already have all the documents needed to get an ID. (which many people don't)  Find me an appointment at the MD DMV for a new ID that doesn't require taking off time from work, doesn't require leaving your child alone, and can be reached via public transit in time.  Good luck. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics