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I just wanted to talk about the
American Alabama Republicans refusing to draw a second

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Black Congressional District Supreme Court and order. It's a news article by Jane C.

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Tim It was in July twenty one, twenty twenty three. You know,

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there was a time when racists to
try to see how much they could

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get away with when under a Supreme
Court order. They would try to go

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right up to the edge of the
line, a bit like kids in the

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backseat of a car on a long
run. Now they just want to force

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the Supreme Court to openly embrace their
hate. And this latest incarnation of a

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court is acquiesce and the right wing
dementia with relic. Ironically, this defiance

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that we're seeing in this is a
perfect example of why the Voting Rights Act

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was needed in the first play.
I think they expected the court to go

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their away the last time, but
there and they were a little butt heard

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about. Maybe free vacations, use
of a yacht, and free tuition for

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family members just doesn't buy what it
used to. The question is will it

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be enough when it does come down
to it. A House speaker Kevin McCarthy,

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the champion of his career above all
else. He has been in contact

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with a few Alabama legislatures, but
for some reason, I think that it

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has more to do with wanting to
stay speaker than wanting to see fair election.

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Now, I hope this hasn't come
across even slightly disingenuous when I say

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that I'm certain the efforts of the
Alabama Republican Party left no stone unturned in

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their efforts to make sure their consistent
constituents were properly represented. Well, I

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lied. I don't think there was
the slightest effort at all. This is

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just another attempt to beat the week
in the Voting Rights Act, over twenty

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five percent of Alabama being African American
seven districts, seems like the efforts of

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the body could only devise one majority
Black district. Now, I don't expect

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the Supreme Court to consider enforcing a
map made by an outside group. It's

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it's one option available to them if
they ultimately don't meet this. But I

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do have a little expectation of the
Supreme Court at this Now, I hope

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I am pleasantly surprised, but I
wouldn't hold my breath. But the Voting

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Rights Act, as I touched on
was one of the most important critical piece

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of educate legislations to guarantee the voting
rights and minorities in the US and empowered

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the fourteenth and fifteenth to do what
they actually lacked the teeth to do.

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Now, the thing is, though, is one thing I am though well

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aware of, is that the three
fiest mentality I can assure you is alive

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and well in Alabama. Now,
Cynthia, I just wondering what are your

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thoughts on that? Well? I
would say that I am shocked Alabama disobeyed

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the Court to uppoth air racist district
maps, But that would be like saying

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that I did not think I would
get what if I walked outside during the

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ring without an umbrella? But you
know, I am more concerned about the

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implications when it comes to state legislatures
completely disregarding the Supreme Court rulings. So

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what do we think are the consequences
here? Do you think that Alabama disobeying

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the Court will set precedents for other
states to do the same. What are

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your thoughts to him? I mean
I hope not. I mean realistically probably

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yes, you know, would would
what states? Would? We probably see

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this in Texas? Florida, Mississippi, Georgia. You know, the usual

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suspects. I certainly hope not.
It's it's it's scary, and jerrymandering is

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alive and well in all these states
and we know it. I mean,

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it's not just a problem in Alabama. Maybe the most egregious case to come

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forward right now, but I mean, you know, spending most of my

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youth in Mississippi and growing up in
Mississippi, I mean I knew this was

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a problem even then. You know, our social studie teacher was telling us

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about the jerrymandering problems in Mississippi and
how they're drawn on racial lines quite often.

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So yeah, I you know,
and it's kind of crazy, specifically

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with Mississippi because Mississippi is like almost
forty percent black. Yeah, but you

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can definitely tell, especially when you
are looking at the infrastructure of the state

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and some of the issues that they're
having and who has the most issues.

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They're normally in areas where it's concentrated
Africa in Marror. But you know,

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I want to go a little bit
down south and not necessarily Mississippi, I

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mean south of the border and ask
our residential cartoon, have you ever heard

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tale of jerrymandering. No, I
had to google it. I had to

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actually go and google it. I'm
going to read what I found rendering.

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It's a controversial practice and has been
the subject of legal challenges to ensure fair

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and equitt equitable representation for all citizens. Apparently, guys over there in the

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USA, you don't have like a
group of senator chosen by people, but

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you go like making maps and choosing
one person from each part of that.

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It's so weird. The USA is
so weird. You have to explain this

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to me, because for me,
this is all new alien territory. We

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are a bunch of weirdos up here
as we are. Well. Jerrymandering more

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so is when a state, a
legislature will draw up district lines and basically

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on who lives where, so that
that will kind of like maneuver a vote

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the way that said legislature wants to
maneuver it. Now, with Alabama being

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mostly a rich state, this is
mostly people who are in the legislature who

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happened to lean more Republican than They're
going to draw lines around certain areas in

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order for them to be able to
have voters be able to choose more likely

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a Republican candidate to represent said area. Problem is with that, as as

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Glynn talked about, it is that
when you are drawing lines based on party

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affiliation, per se and sensibilities,
when it comes to policies with parties with

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party affiliation, then you do have
groups of people that will get annexed out,

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especially when it comes to their vote. And oftentimes when Jerry Mandarin happened,

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it's like Tim, you mentioned Mississippi, does it? Texas does it?

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I mean they jerry Mander in Illinois
where I'm at, they jerry Mander

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in Wisconsin. Louisiana. I mean
Louisiana actually even had one of the same

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issues, but they actually got their
their particular lawsuit in their favor. But

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regardless of that, it often disranchises
black voters, and black voters are often

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are not able to really choose odd
representator representative representatives that would represent their interest

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when it comes to whether if it's
in the state legislature or even a federal

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legislature. Because these district lines can
also even affect our federal congressional representatives,

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whether if you're a senator and also
as a or as a what do you

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call them people. There's a House
of representatives. Yeah, that's that's what

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you call them. I do want
to say in Texas especially, you know,

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I taught debate high school debate for
a little bit, and we kind

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of went over this in my debate
class. Because I taught mostly Hispanic students,

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A lot of the lines are drawn
to disenfranchise Hispanic voters because there's such

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a majority minority in Texas. So
you see that a lot here. I

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do want to add in one thing
really quickly, because I thought this was

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really interesting. It came to my
mind as we were talking about this article,

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and Tayo, you might find this
particularly interesting. Jerry Mandering got its

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name from being a portmanteau of salamander
and Elbridge Jerry, vice President of the

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United States at the time of his
death, who signed a bill to create

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a Parsan district in Boston, and
that area was compared to the shape of

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a salamander. That's how jerry mandery. That's what jerrymandering is called. What

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it is, it's Jerry and salamander
together, if you can believe it.

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Kind of grazy. I first thought
you were gonna say salmon, and I

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was like, damn. I'm but
regardless of that, you know, I

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wanted to something else to you,
guys. I want you to think about

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this, like, so, can
the left use the same tactics Alabama is

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using to disobey the Court on some
of the problematic cases that haven't passed through

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the court. Anybody wants to weigh
on that, what about you, infidel?

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Well, I would say that it's
an option. But right now,

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ultimately, anything they try to pass
is going to end up with that same

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right wing, reactionary court that we're
facing right now. While they're very receptive

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to, yeah, let's go ahead
and spread the people we don't like over

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a wide distribution so we don't have
a concentrated effort too, so they can

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actually get representation, I don't think
we find nearly the same receptiveness. And

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if we tried to do that more
progressive policy, I definitely think there's an

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agenda. I think that unfortunately,
there are at least bad actors at this

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point on the Supreme Court who have
demonstrated time and again that they don't really

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care about the rule of law.
They care about promoting an agenda. And

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as long as you have that that
it's going to be pushedback. I'm really

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hoping that Biden gets at least one
chance to put one more person on a

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Supreme Court so we can kind of
get this back to a five four where

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Robert's going at least become relevant because
he likes playing relevant time. Yeah,

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but even like with you know,
maybe if we get like somebody else that

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actually will balance out the Supreme Court. We we also have to consider people

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who happen to be in federal courts, in appellate courts that are under them,

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and and even you know, federal
judges who happen to be in other

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districts as well that could possibly rule
on cases like this, whether if they

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deem a legislature drew lines that happen
to be racially motivated or not. But

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I you know, even just like
thinking about all of this stuff, especially

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when we're talking about Jerryman Green and
I know, Glenn that you pretty much

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mentioned mostly the Voters Rights Act of
nineteen sixty five really being the basis on

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making sure that votes coming from the
electorate are accounting counted properly and in a

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more equitable and equitable scene. Even
though that a lot of the issues specifically

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with the Voters Rights Act was gutted
in two thousand and thirteen. As far

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as like the efficacy of some of
the things that you know, the Voter

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Voters Right Acts was doing, and
and we may have like a long list

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of you know, civil rights uh, different civil rights activists that were pushing

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for more equitable voting who were what's
the good word killed because they were trying

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to actually push forward, you know, like listen, if I'm a citizen

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my votes account, I should be
able to vote without impedance, and I

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should not necessarily have certain barriers that
are placed on me just because I happened

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to be of a different group other
than a majority. And you, Tim,

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I didn't know that you were a
person that came from the South that

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was witnessing ers like you know what
when you even like read any of this,

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and you were like, you know, privy to like, oh wow,

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they voted. The Supreme Court voted
against Alabama saying that you absolutely disenfranchised

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black voters in your in your state. And then Alabama said, so what

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were your thoughts? Basically, and
we're gonna do what we want to do,

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So what were your thoughts? And
do you think that the Supreme Court,

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and I guess this is going to
be for all of you guys.

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Do you really think that the Supreme
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know, find a way to actually
enforce their ruling that happened in Alabama.

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I hope they do. I mean, we can only we can only just

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hope they do. I almost said
pray, And I still have to catch

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myself. I'm I'm still exercising after
thirteen years of being an atheist, I'm

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still exercising a lot of this what
happens Christianity automy. Yeah, you know,

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it's I mean, this kind of
stuff. People people in the large

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majority of people in Mississippi, ALBM
aren't talking about this. They they they

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they might not even they don't might
not even ever come across this headline.

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If they do, they don't care. This to them, it is something

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that should happen. And it's good
because they're so ingrained into thinking that,

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uh, these things are normal and
how things should be to them, Addressing

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this issue in the way that we
are with with you know, alarm and

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and addressing it with with emotions of
you know, this is frightening and I

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can't believe this is happening, and
this is unjust to them. That's that's

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leftism, and that's that that's the
enemy, and that's wokeism, and and

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that's the enemy. And and uh, they they see a certain segment of

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the population talking about this in a
in a worried way, and to them

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that that just tells them they don't
even need to care about this. This

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is an issue, do you know
what I'm saying. So the majority people

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in Mississippi, I don't think what
even bat and I, uh, this

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is the majority of people I grew
up with, you know, family members

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and people who spent the majority of
my life with. To them, this

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this kind of stuff doesn't even matter, you know. I've got to say

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that, being from Louisiana right next
door, I remember in the early nineties

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there was a big uproar about getting
one black majority district in Louisiana state with

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almost thirty percent I mean not as
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as Mississippi, but still very significant. And it was more of a well,

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you know, we allowed them vote. I mean, they should just

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mind their place. You know,
that's that's good enough. They can go

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vote, you know it doesn't matter
if we just distribute them. We have

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these you know, districts drawn out
looking like spaghetti throwing on a map.

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But you know, this is what
we do to dilute their votes. But

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yeah, I didn't the vote.
They can carry on their thing, and

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we're going to carry on. Hours
two, Jim crucis yep, yes,

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exactly. Now we're seeing more and
more people in bold than wanted to touch

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on one thing. I don't see
them pushing this because I know they have

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the option of saying, you know, you guys had your chance. Now

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we're going to go to outside sources
and do this the right way. I

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don't see that happen because at the
end of the day, I think they

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want to see this happen. So
I think they're going to look at it

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and say, well, you gave
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one that has close enough. We'll
call it. We'll call it even.

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But the truth is is, if
you look at the last fifteen elections on

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that one that they're talking about,
the only one that a democratic majority was

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actually voted in was one where they
had a guy who was cruising the mall

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for underage girls and was kicked out
of the State Supreme Court twice disbarred.

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So I mean, if that's the
one where you can actually get enough people

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for a black majority, can that's
really not good. That's pretty that's that's

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underhanded jerrymandering. At baar Men Gosh, I think that he wore ten Gallon

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had to defind that mistake, and
I think that he did. Are you

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still scared of the United States?
I'm still scared of the United States.

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I would repeat what I've said before. It's funny how you talk about leftism

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or the left wing that you say, guy, you guys, you have

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right on extremist right. That's it. There is no left over there.

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Man. It's so weird to see
the right wing of the USA fighting against

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which one wants to be extremely extremists
in their rightness, and the one that

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prefers to be less extremist than it
gets called left because of that. Nope,

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you are still right wing and that's
it. Yeah. What we call

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left is center maybe just the one
that every usually not even that it's not

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in the total extreme of the right
wing. It's left obviously. Yeah,

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exactly if you're not completely dislike like, uh, you know, a Christian

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national unless you're considered left, including
other Christians. Yeah, so it's you

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know, one of the things that
I wanted to leave something that's on people's

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mind. Why why voting matter and
and what the history about you know,

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voters rights activism really is in the
United States. Uh, this, this

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got a this like a few things
I wanted to discuss, Like in a

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Cooee, Florida, on November second, nineteen twenty, in what is now

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the a Cooee massacre, fifty African
Americans were voted, were murdered and a

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brutal massacre because they wanted to exercise
their legal right to vote. In May

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seventh, nineteen fifty five, in
your neck of the Woods, Uh Tim

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Belzoni, Mississippi, Reverend George Lee, one of the first black people who

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registered to vote in Humphreys County,
used his pulpit too and his printing press

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to urge others to vote. White
official offered Lee protection on the condition he

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ended his voters rights registration efforts,
but Lee refused, and he was murdered.

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August thirteenth, thirteenth, nineteen fifty
five and Brookhaven, Mississippi, Lamar

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Smith was shot dead on the courthouse
lawn by a white man in broad daylight

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while dozens of people watched. The
killer was never indicted because no one would

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admit that they saw a white man
shoot a black man. Smith had organized

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blacks to vote in recent elections.
Want to leave one more. September twenty

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fifth, nineteen sixty one, Liberty, Mississippi. Herbert Lee, who worked

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with civil rights leader Bob Moses to
help register black voters, was killed by

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a state legislature who claimed self defense
and was never arrested. Louis Allen,

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a black man who witnessed the murder, also was later killed and then also

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gotta do one in the Alabama this
is what we talk about. August twentieth,

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nineteen sixty five, in Haneyville,
Alabama. Jonathan Merrick Daniels, an

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Episcopal seminary student in Boston, had
come to Alabama to help with black voter

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registration in Louds County. He was
arrested at a demonstration, jailed in Haneyville,

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and then suddenly released. Moments after
his release, he was shot to

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death by deputy sheriff. I can't
pretend I'm surprior always Mississippi, so I

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you know, haven't grown up there
anytime I look at the state the state,

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like they'll do like statistics for each
state, What state has the lowest

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average income level, what state has
the lowest education level, what state has

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the lowest quality of life? It's
always, I mean, you can you

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don't even have to guess anymore.
It's a joke. It's always going to

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be Mississippi. And this is why. This is why, and and and

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just the very fact that Alabama is
completely disregarding an already very conservative court when

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it comes to like, Wow,
you went a little bit too far with

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your sting them right, your spaghetti
drawn together maps. This is crazy.

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And I just want to mention to
our dear viewers, this is not nineteen

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fifty three. We are in two
thousand and twenty three. But if you

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