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The Michael Vary Show is on the air.

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 barraq 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 gym

pro era so it's going to take an all hands on deck effort.

He 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.

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