So the NAACP almost immediately sued to block this effort from Tennessee.

Can you give us a sense of what fighting back in this moment is going to look like?

It's going to require that we remember we are the United States of America.

And so we have to sit what Tennessee is doing next to the fight that's coming out of Louisiana,

next to the fight that will follow in Mississippi

and likely in South Carolina. We are watching in real time the restoration of the very laws

that pretended racial neutrality, but were intended to deny black and brown voters the right

to participate in democracy, which is one of the

principal goals of authoritarianism. They do not want the people who may disagree with them to be

heard. And right now in the United States, race is the strongest predictor of political leanings.

And so it's a lucky twofer. They get the partisanship, but they also get the white supremacy that they seek.

And I sat in a hearing yesterday in National Tennessee when the author of the legislation said,

well, this is a conservative state. We should only have conservatives. And they intentionally

erased the only black district, one of nine districts, the only one that allowed

black Tennesseans to have some voice because they've already cracked Nashville. But we have to remember

this is happening around the country and it is part of an intentional nationwide pattern of behavior.

We can be angry about Tennessee and we can laud the Tennesseans

who have fought back so ably, but we've got to remember they started in the South, but they're

coming for everyone. Race is a leading predict. Y'all don't want to talk about DEI out there. Y'all

want to talk about race, but everything you do touches on all of that. Everything you're doing touches on all of that is hitting black

people upside the head. It's hitting brown people upside their, up the head in their communities.

So what are we talking about here? And I love what you just said. I mean, you have this,

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