Steve Cohen actually said...

"It did not end with the Civil War. It did not end with Baker v. Carr."

"It is patently unfair."

"The enslavement of people of African-American descent in America was started before we were a country, in 1619, and it has gone on through the end of the Civil War."

"It was using Black people for the political power of southerners who wanted to have that power mostly to keep slavery legal."