Don't for a moment think that this stops with disenfranchising black voters.

Once they are done suppressing black voters, women are next, gay people are next, poor

white folks are next, nobody is safe once the powers that be are allowed to dismantle democracy.

Dismantling the Voting Rights Act is not a black issue.

It's an everybody issue, and I think we really need to act like it.

Hello and welcome to the Politics Girl podcast. I'm your host Lee McGowan. Let's get into it.

So this past week, Chief Justice

John Roberts finally got what he's work towards for the last 40 years, the dismantling of the

1965 Voting Rights Act. The court has been picking away at voter protections for years, but with the

decision they made last week, it's all but gone. To give you some background, the Voting Rights Act

was written during the civil

rights era as a way to dismantle the super racist Jim Crow voter suppression tactics that had been

used incredibly effectively to disenfranchise minority voters, but particularly black voters in the

South. After decades of activism, the Voting Rights Act was finally passed in 1965, championed by black

activist and signed by Lyndon B. Johnson, a white president from a segregated state.

And it was, and to this day, considered to be one of the most momentous pieces of civil rights

legislation in United States history.

We built America on slavery. But even after slavery was abolished and

the 15th Amendment prohibited racial discrimination in voting, it was still unnecessarily difficult

for black Americans to fully participate in the nation they were now truly a part of.

The Voting Rights Act was created to make the unnecessary hurdles thrown in front of these particular

voters illegal, and over time those protections expanded to include language minorities, native

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