the importance of it is serious about the Voting Rights Act and the place where our democracy presently rests in jeopardy.

If we are to remain a true democracy, we must resist attempts to poison our election machinery with partisan interests that disenfranchise minority voters.

Michael Carvin, representing the Arizona Republican Party in the Supreme Court, gave away the game when he boldly admitted this position in open court.

Because that's the world I want to live in, and that's the world we should all want to live in.

Perhaps this here is the fear, fear that we will build the kind of political power that is just.

We are all in the midst of a moral crisis, and we know that.

Fear that if and when we empower Black people, that will somehow disempower White people.

A lot of people in my district don't have copy machines in their homes.

the last Voting Rights Act we had in 2006 was named for Fannie Lou Hamer, Mr. Johnson, for Rosa Parks, for Barbara Jordan, and Cesar Chavez, and other great civil rights leaders.

I think it is appropriate at this point, after this published testimony, that I yield the remainder of my time to Ms. McBath, who knows firsthand what Georgia is doing in redistricting.

What are you afraid of? Are you afraid that we will end redlining?