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Bakari Sellers: “Senator Kennedy and many others are expecting laws to say that niggers are colored or blacks can't come here, can't vote…”

On the recordApril 21, 2021
Senator Kennedy and many others are expecting laws to say that niggers are colored or blacks can't come here, can't vote here. But that's not the way that Jim Crow worked when it came to Voting Rights Act because of the 15th Amendment, you could not ban people from the ballot box on there -- because of their race on its face.
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Bakari Sellers
Democratic · South Carolina

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Bakari Sellers discusses the misunderstanding of Jim Crow laws in relation to current voting rights legislation.

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