Cory Booker: “The voting rights stopped Southern states from…”

“What they actually didn't, what they actually did in effect was saying, we have kept you from using race. We've kept you from using race to design your maps so that you don't disenfranchise black people. The voting rights stopped Southern states from disenfranchising black people by drawing crazy maps that meant a state like Louisiana where a third of the people are black and they have no representation. And so what the Supreme Court says is we don't need that anymore. And what of what are all those states doing? They're redistricting to eviscerate black political representation.” (13:25–13:38)

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