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It's clear just the swiftness with which these southern legislatures moved, these Republicans

move to eliminate black political power.

It's clear that the Republicans see black political power as a democratizing force, which

it is. They understand that.

And this is a way to consolidate power. And it's also a way to express white supremacy.

We went from the progress of emancipation to the backlash of Jim Crow.

The progress of the civil rights movement to the backlash of mass incarceration.

The progress of electing Barack Obama to the backlash of mass incarceration, the progress of electing

Barack Obama to the backlash that has resulted in the elevation of Donald Trump, MAGA

extremism, and this behavior that we're seeing coming out of the Supreme Court of the United

States to throw the American South back into the Jim Pro Era.

So it's going to take an all hands-on-deck effort.

I would rather go blind, boy,

than to see you walk away from me, child.

They chose to issue an opinion in the middle of May while primers were going on, and then the US Supreme Court thought, you know what, sure, we let black voters wait two years and vote under illegal maps,

but God forbid these white voters have to do the same in Louisiana, that would be a constitutional crisis.

And against all of that backdrop, have we learned nothing?

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