Cory Booker: “The Supreme Court says the law that stopped [racial…”

“… the south, beatings, lynchings, all kind of laws were being passed from poll taxes to crazy district lines to stop black people from having any political power or fair representation. The Supreme Court says the law that stopped [racial gerrymandering], we're taking that away. And the result is going to be a rollback to that post reconstruction period. Because they may not be saying the quiet part out loud, but they are with surgical precision racially gerrymandering so that black people have no power.” (14:27–14:31)

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