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Jamie Raskin: “American apartheid lasted until the modern civil rights movement, when the blood sacrifice of John Lewis and Medgar…”

On the recordJune 25, 2020
American apartheid lasted until the modern civil rights movement, when the blood sacrifice of John Lewis and Medgar Evers, Schwerner, Chaney, and Goodman, and Dr. King gave us the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but we have been brought back to the baseline of violent white supremacy by a reactionary Supreme Court and a President who looks into the souls of white supremacists and sees ``very fine people.'' This is the real deep state in America: violent white racism. Black Lives Matter and America's young people have given us the chance to launch a new birth of freedom, a third reconstruction in America. Let's start today with the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act.
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Jamie Raskin
Democratic · Maryland
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Jun 25, 2020

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