A Word: Biden: Fighting or Failing on Voting Rights?

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🗓️ 16 January 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

President Biden and Vice President Harris made impassioned speeches in Georgia this week, calling voting rights a top political priority. But the grassroots organizers who helped turn Georgia in 2020 want more than words, and many refused to attend the president’s event. One of those people is Nsé Ufot, the CEO of the New Georgia Project voting rights group. On today’s episode of A Word, Jason Johnson talks with Ufot about dangers to voting rights, frustrations with Biden, and the dire consequences for people of color should voting protection efforts fail. Guest: Nsé Ufot, CEO of the New Georgia Project Podcast production by Jasmine Ellis You can skip all the ads in A Word by joining Slate Plus. Sign up now at slate.com/awordplus for just $1 for your first month. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.0	I'm your host, Jason Johnson.
0:35.0	President Biden was in Georgia this week making another speech in support of voting rights.
0:39.8	For the right to vote and that vote counted is democracy's threshold liberty.
0:47.5	Without it, nothing is possible.
0:50.1	But many voting rights activists are calling it too little, too late.
0:53.2	I won't go to a photo app when there's a real fight happening.
0:56.8	What's the path ahead for protecting access to the ballot box and is the president a leader,
1:01.4	a bystander or an obstruction?
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