is that there's a lot of things that we can be doing like voter ID like every time you walk into a

restaurant or a club you have to show your ID how about you have to show your ID to vote that's not

that's not anything that's crazy and that's what that's what we should be talking about

certainly one of the votes on Capitol Hill right now put that map up because I think you know

where I'm going with this because you were a student of history.

The two states that are missing from this map are Arkansas and Texas.

What we are looking at and Virginia, what we are looking at is basically a map of the old confederacy.

And so this tug of war that you're talking about goes back to the Civil War.

Please put into historical context for folks so that they truly understand.

And I'm always pointing out that true democracy in this country is only 61 years old.

Yes.

If you go back to the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and why that was necessary.

Absolutely.

Thank you, Jonathan.

So let's start with what the Civil War decided.

So post-Civil War, we have three amendments that we talk about.

The 13th Amendment that ended slavery for most people, unless you're in prison.

You have the 14th Amendment that guaranteed birthright citizenship for now.

And then you have the 15th Amendment that said that the right to vote for everyone except for black

women or actually at the time black women and white women and then when you get to the Voting

Rights Act finally we add women into the black women into it but the 15th amendment said that you

could not deny the right to vote based on race and And so what we saw was that it was working.

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