Just Mine Now

This is an important listen IMO. Interesting road blocks sprang up thus the reason for the Voting Rights Act. The GOP have been working for “new found efforts to try to dilute the votes especially minority votes not necessarily based on voters of color who tend to, not always, but tend to vote Democratic.”  Let this sink in: “[T]he 15th amendment said that the right to vote can't be abridged on account of race. And it gave Congress the power in that amendment to pass legislation to effectuate the guarantee of the 15th amendment.” This is what this did: "First, it identified a whole cadre of states that had been engaged in really kind of wicked stratagems notwithstanding constitutional guarantees to keep especially African Americans from voting. And section 4 of it set up a way of determining who were the people that were sort of going to be in the penalty box, which states. And section 5 established a preclearance requirement.” He fully explains this here. Gerrymandering come ...