Joining us today on IHIP News is the iconic Reverend Al Sharpton. You are in for a treat. He

serves as the founder and president of the National Action Network, anchors Politics Nation on MS Now,

hosts the nationally syndicated radio shows, keeping it real, and the

hour of power holds weekly National Action Network Saturday rallies and speaks out on behalf of

those who have been silenced and marginalized.

It sounds like you're really busy, Reverend.

A little bit, a little bit.

Yeah.

All right.

So you're one of the preeminent civil rights leaders of our time.

And give me some perspective here.

Give my listener and viewer some perspective here.

How far does the SCOTUS decision set us back with the Voting Rights Act?

I think it sets us back in a very impactful way in the sense that now that they've said

that you can no longer protect people's rights that says that they've been discriminated

against in terms of voting participation by race or for that matter, they said that they are going to allow them to redraw the lines where they, the district lines are voting.

So your congressman or congresswoman may no longer reflect the community you're in. I think the whole purpose of the

Voting Rights Act was to try and make sure that everyone had fair access to the ballot. But the

Supreme Court has done is overturned that. So if you're in a state that you have, for example, they just did the ruling, the vote yesterday

in South Carolina, where you have a state over 30% black, they wanted to take out the only

one black majority district, Jim Clybury.

So that means that you would then chop up the black community

...