Political Quotes

“I am honored to stand with my CBC colleagues in this fight as we stand up for the people we represent. For decades, the far right has sold this country a lie, a lie that racism ended in 1965, a lie that discrimination is ancient history. For years, that rhetoric lived in chat rooms in the ugliest corners of American life. Well, today it lives in the highest courts in the land, cloaked in robes. This conservative Supreme Court has taken a wrecking ball to the Voting Rights Act, one of the greatest achievements of the civil rights movement. Now, after the Louisiana v. Callais ruling, there is barely any of the law left. Before this ruling, Black voters in the South had at least some defense against intentional political extinction. Now that is gone. The ink was barely dry before Republican States rushed to redraw maps and move election dates--Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, South Carolina, State after State after State. Let's be honest about what this is. This is a coordinated effort to engineer electorates so that Trump has all the White majority districts he needs, and the tragedy, the disgrace is that this rush to redraw proves exactly why the Voting Rights Act was needed in the first place.”